Laura Cobrinik
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Meredith May:
How inciteful you are in comparing the growth of "Bee" families with "Human" families. Had that been your outline when you wrote the book? Or, did it just happen as you went along. Such a compelling book. I could not put it down! Thank you so much. Laura Cobrinik, Boonton Township, NJ
Meredith May
Laura, hi!
The Honey Bus took me 10 years to write and three complete re-writes, because at first I wasn't clear on what I was writing about. The first version was a very wounded story focused on my feelings about my mother. I had to mature as a daughter to see that my childhood was just as fulfilling as it was challenging. It wasn't until my grandfather died in 2015 while I was writing the book that I realized how much of a savior he'd been, and how he'd used his bee societies to teach me about human ones.
The Honey Bus took me 10 years to write and three complete re-writes, because at first I wasn't clear on what I was writing about. The first version was a very wounded story focused on my feelings about my mother. I had to mature as a daughter to see that my childhood was just as fulfilling as it was challenging. It wasn't until my grandfather died in 2015 while I was writing the book that I realized how much of a savior he'd been, and how he'd used his bee societies to teach me about human ones.
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