Listen: Essays on Living the Good Life

by Bobbi Buchanan

In lilting prose, Bobbi Buchanan offers lessons for simpler living which add up to better health, bigger savings, and an enormous sense of satisfaction. Her book, Listen: Essays on Living the Good Life, illuminates her irresistible, straightforward, vivacious personality as she shares scenes of her happy home life with intriguing titles such as “The Stigma of the Laundry Line;” “Can You Swallow This;” “Little Dream Car;” and “Unplugged and Loving It.” If only the mavens of American culture would read and heed this informative and timely collection, our planet could look to a brighter, longer future. --Mary Popham

42 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2013

About the author

Bobbi Buchanan has led therapeutic writing workshops for inmates and others in recovery from addiction and trauma since 2013. She promotes a self-care regimen of unplugging, communing with nature, and journaling. A poet and author, Buchanan taught college writing at Jefferson Community and Technical College and now teaches English at Valley High School in Louisville. She launched and ran a literary journal, New Southerner, for more than 10 years, and she edited and published seven volumes of creative works by inmates while teaching therapeutic writing and life skills at the Bullitt County Detention Center. She is a Kentucky Foundation for Women grant recipient and led a writing workshop for troubled youth at YouthBuild as part of HEAL Smoketown, a nonprofit effort by artists to improve community connection and health in Louisville’s first and oldest historically Black neighborhood.