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Author of SMALL BLESSINGS, on sale 8/12/14, MARTHA WOODROOF was born in the South, went to boarding school and college in New England, ran away to Texas for a while, then fetched up in Virginia. She has written for NPR, npr.org, Marketplace and Weekend America, and for the Virginia Foundation for Humanities Radio Feature Bureau. Her print essays have appeared in such newspapers as the New York Times, The Washington Post, and the San Francisco Chronicle. Small Blessings is her debut novel. She lives with her husband in the Shenandoah Valley. Their closest neighbors are cows.

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Charlie and I like to go on road wanders. It doesn’t have to be to anywhere exotic – in fact, it doesn’t even have to be to anywhere specific.

Last week, we found ourselves in Kilmarnock, a good-sized small town on Virginia’s Northern Neck, the northernmost of the three Virginia peninsulas that jut into the Chesapeake Bay.

The Northern Neck is bounded by the Potomac River on the north and the Rapp

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“Worrying meant you were trying to control something you had no business trying to control”
― Martha Woodroof, Small Blessings

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“Children needed space more than overprotection. Parents who hovered were meeting their own needs, not their children’s.”
― Martha Woodroof, Small Blessings

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“It takes courage to be happy, you know-even when you keep moving. It takes guts to accept things as they really are and not blame life for being what it is.”
― Martha Woodroof, Small Blessings

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