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Patty Collamer

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in Boulder, The United States

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Nonfiction, Self Help, Memoir

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Patty Collamer newest book, One Simple Breath: A Caregiver's Guide to Inner Peace is available now. She is the author of Grace on the Ledge, a memoir of her childhood growing up in the ’60s and later caring for her mother after a stroke, and Grammy’s Eyes, a children’s picture book about a family adapting to changes caused by a stroke. A retired teacher, she became a certified yoga instructor in 2017. She leads vinyasa practices and vipassana meditations. She and her husband love visiting their grown children on both coasts and are completely in love with their new granddaughter. They live near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, with their jumbo-sized dog Riley and their mean cat Cricket. ...more

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Grace on the Ledge Chapter One

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On a sunny late spring day, my mother’s brain attacked itself. In an instant her battle with stroke began. One syllable and six letters seems simple. What follows is nothing but complicated. We’ll never know the number of attacks. Was it one, two, three, more? It doesn’t matter. Medical records document the powerful, chaotic, and inescapable electrified battl Read more of this blog post »

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What to Eat Now: The Indispensable Guide to Good Food, How to Find It, and Why It Matters

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Webster's Collegiate Dictionary: Fifth Edition

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“My mother used rituals to perpetuate an illusion of family organization.”
― Patricia Thompson Collamer, Grace on the Ledge: a memoir

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Patty’s Quotes

“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.”
― Anais Nin

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“Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.”
― Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking

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