Having edited reflective, personal journals I am always looking for lively, first-hand material. The Journal Keeper by Phyllis Theroux is a trove for anyone who is interested in reading from life and not just about life. With humor, lightness, finely tuned perception, and a recognition of the role of irony in life, it is at once a page-turner and a page-keeper. It is said that the over-examined life is not worth reading. Theroux's latest book is well worth reading, either in a few sittings or savored bit by bit as if one were soul grazing across the many terrains of a life fully lived. Don't be fooled by the comfortable chair on the cover, or that this kind of memoir is "women's writing." This is a book for men and women who believe, as Eudora Welty did that "all real daring begins within."
Marv Hiles, editor of Daybook, An Almanac for the Soul, and All The Days of My life.
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