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Maura Casey grew up the youngest of six in a Buffalo, NY, Irish family. She began writing at 12 , turning her passion into a 30+ journalism career, winning over 40 awards. Maura is a former editorial writer for The New York Times and three other newspapers. Currently she writes a weekly column on Substack with thousands of subscribers called Casey's Catch. Readers can contact her through her column or her website, www.CaseyInk. She is a gifted editor, writing coach and public speaker.

Maura used the diaries she wrote as a teenager to help write the book. She was surprised to see that they had pages of dialogue, her mother’s wit, scenes of her sister’s determination and her father’s alcoholism. From her diaries she fashioned a narrative arc t
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A messenger for peace

Sometimes the most memorable experiences are the quietest.

That happened to me one week when I was working as an editor in New London, Connecticut, around 20 years ago. Much of my job at The Day, the midsized daily newspaper where I worked, involved putting together a four-page section of different viewpoints that appeared every Sunday. During slow weeks the task was challenging. I was not above si

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