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Elizabeth Gaucher

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Elizabeth Damewood Gaucher is a writer living with her husband and young daughter in Vermont.

Growing up in Charleston, West Virginia, meant town and country storytelling all of the time. Her mother’s father was one of ten children, born to a coal miner in the New River Gorge. Her father’s mother mowed the grass in high heels on Virginia Street in Charleston into her nineties, having been a young adult cutting more than few rugs in the Roaring Twenties. It was, as they say, always on.

Gaucher’s essay, “Farm Dogs,” received a Judge’s Choice award in 2014 from Silas House’s literary journal, Still. Her published work appears in books by Westminster John Knox Press, Seventh Star Press, and Visibility Press; and various online essays and op-eds a ...more

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What Do You Want?

What do you want for Christmas? This holy season, he wants you to accept that it’s about YOU. The king wants you to know that you, the individual, are holy and precious in his sight. It’s about satisfying desire, yours and his. It’s about what you both have been waiting for, what you both deserve. … Continue reading What Do You Want? Read more of this blog post »

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	Between The Lines by Michael Knost (Editor), Elizabeth Gaucher (Goodreads Author), Nicole E. Castle 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Elizabeth’s Quotes

“Consumerism thrives on emotional voids.”
― Caroline Knapp, Appetites: Why Women Want

tags: capitalism

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“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: books, children-s-books, reading

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“Man, sometimes it takes you a long time to sound like yourself.”
― Miles Davis

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“Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.”
― Friedrich W. Nietzsche

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