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MaryAnn Boyle

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Mary Ann Boyle lives with her wife in a small community on the edge of the Salish Sea. In her 30-year career as a licensed mental health counselor, she was privileged to join clients in the unfolding of their individual stories, and gather groups together to explore life through literature. When not hunkered down writing, she enjoys reading great stories, riding her bike, going for walks, hiking in the Pacific Northwest, and traveling the world. But most of all, she loves spending time with friends and family. She is a ridiculously obsessed mom and grandma.

Literature can be both guide and mirror.
It provides perspective and permission.
And I know that it can be an escape, a balm.
But is that so bad?
It is not a numbing agent.
Instead, it is a ro
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Wow! If I had read about this book before reading it, I never would have picked it up. But I'm so glad I did. I friend loaned it to me and I knew nothing about it. It is fantastic! The descriptions of The Measure as science fiction and dystopia would ...more
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One Good Thing by Alexandra Potter
“That’s the thing about later, though. It never really comes, does it? Instead you always seem to skip right past it without noticing and then, before you know it, it’s not later – it’s too late.”
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“Literature can be both guide and mirror.
It provides perspective and permission.
And I know that it can be an escape, a balm.
But is that so bad?
It is not a numbing agent.
Instead, it is a room into which
one might wander seeking
shelter from the storm.
Mary Ann”
Mary Ann Boyle

“That’s the thing about later, though. It never really comes, does it? Instead you always seem to skip right past it without noticing and then, before you know it, it’s not later – it’s too late.”
Alexandra Potter, One Good Thing

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