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Lucinda Fleeson

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I began my journalism career in college as a photographer, shooting rock concerts and protest marches for alternative weeklies in Boston and Cambridge, Mass. Freelancing stories, I began to find my voice as a reporter and writer and eventually abandoned the camera for a typewriter.
Hooked on news, I worked for several local papers before landing at The Philadelphia Inquirer. I wrote hundreds of news articles, features and investigative stories that tracked everything from corruption in the Atlantic City police department, to the art and cultural beat. I never expected to leave The Inquirer, imagining that I’d die with a half-written story in the computer. But as the landscape for journalism started shifting cataclysmically under my feet, I ...more

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The Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod
By Henry Beston
Paperback, 256 pages
Holt Paperbacks
List price: $15

November 26, 2009
Essay by Lucinda Fleeson

On a recent trip to Cape Cod, I bundled Read more of this blog post »

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Waking Up in Eden: In Pursuit of an Impassioned Life on an Imperiled Island

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The Rags of Time: A Novel

by Maureen Howard

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Lucinda Fleeson said: " Just beginning. . an end of life book by a beautiful writer. . . "

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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

by Mark Twain

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Lucinda Fleeson said: " I realize that I forgot what I had read about this book, and started rediscovering it on a Books On Tape. It IS the great American masterpiece. "

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Within the Realm of Happiness

by Kinley Dorji

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“Food, particularly chocolate, at a time of grief or crisis is never a mistake.”
― Lucinda Fleeson, Waking Up in Eden: In Pursuit of an Impassioned Life on an Imperiled Island

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“That's why we call them belongings, because they give us a sense of belonging to something when we've left behind one life and have no compass to guide us through the next.”
― Lucinda Fleeson, Waking Up in Eden: In Pursuit of an Impassioned Life on an Imperiled Island

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“Dr. Klein like to say that gardens are for growing people, but we must not forget: People are for growing gardens.”
― Lucinda Fleeson, Waking Up in Eden: In Pursuit of an Impassioned Life on an Imperiled Island

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