Tag: the scent of god
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September 15, 2006 11:39 AM EDT --
In this most eloquent memoir, Beryl Singleton Bissell debuts a fine literary talent that will not be forgotten and should not be missed. It is with beauty and grace that we are taken on the journey of . . .
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December 07, 2007 01:06 AM EST --
This is my entry to Beryl Singleton Bissell's "The Scent of God" contest. The parameters of the contest were to write a few sentences describing what it is you think "The . . .
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May 14, 2006 07:47 AM EDT --
Thursday I arrived home to notice a package on my stoop. Realizing Beryl's book was on it's way, I squealed with delight as I pulled in the drive.
Grabbing up the package and hugging it . . .
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April 06, 2006 01:08 PM EDT --
As many of you know, Gather's own Beryl Singleton Bissell has published her memoir THE SCENT OF GOD, and it's arriving in bookstores this week. . . .
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June 27, 2007 05:36 PM EDT --
Other Gatherites have written beautiful reviews about Beyrl Singleton Bisell's memoir, The Scent of God. I would not be able to do them justice, but just wanted to chime in.
I ordered . . .
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May 15, 2006 11:51 PM EDT --
In my last post, the cat returned safely home just prior to my departure for Boston. I mentioned that she was very, very cold, but I don't think I said that she was so traumatized by her . . .
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April 24, 2006 09:32 AM EDT --
I took the jacket off the book, as fast as I could, and laid it on the glass plate of my Epson 4990 Perfection. (Why the hell did Epson create a line of scanners bearing the word Perfection on them? Did . . .
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April 28, 2006 12:07 PM EDT --
beryl recently sent me a link to her page at the Minnesota States ArtsBoard site of the Art of Recovery reading she did last weekend, at theMinnesota State Arts Board. There's a video of her . . .
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April 29, 2006 02:15 PM EDT --
I'd love to be surrounded by warm and caring Gatherers when I go on tour to read and sign books in Boston, Chicago, Minneapolis, and San Francisco, so, if you live nearby or have relatives and/or friends . . .
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June 15, 2006 01:47 PM EDT --
I wrote this article specifically for a new group called Minnesota Readers but am posting it to everyone at Gather as I'm currently engaged in a publicity tour for my new book, The Scent of God. . . .
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June 14, 2007 04:29 PM EDT --
Gather's own Beryl Singleton Bissell has embarked on a blog tour with the release of the paperback version of her remarkable book The Scent of . . .
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June 22, 2007 10:33 AM EDT --
i've read beryl's writing for many years - her eloquent columns of life on the north shore provided much-needed balm to my city-dwelling soul, stranded in minneapolis. i longed to be on a lake, . . .
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August 03, 2007 07:53 AM EDT --
When I was an adolescent growing up in a small Kansas town, I sometimes dreamt of becoming a nun--even though I was not Catholic. My cousin, Virginia, had given her life to God and went off to a convent. . . .
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April 19, 2007 12:35 PM EDT --
To celebrate the release of the paperback edition of The Scent of God, I am offering a free signed copy to each of 10 lucky winners. All you have to do is share your feelings about the book jacket after . . .
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July 20, 2007 11:44 AM EDT --
Beryl Singleton Bissel's book "The Scent of God: a Memoir" is the story of a cloistered nun, a wife, a widow, a single mom, a divorcee and a happily married woman. The lyrical prose and the . . .
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May 11, 2006 10:41 AM EDT --
This is a supplement to Kathryn's excellent article on Beryl's reading last night at the Harvard Coop in Cambridge.
It was so nice to meet Beryl in person, and she kept us all glued to our seats . . .
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May 25, 2007 10:07 AM EDT --
Today I’m pleased to host a leg of Beryl Singleton Bissell’s blog book tour for the newly-released paperback edition of her memoir The Scent of God, the extraordinary story of Beryl’s . . .
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November 29, 2005 01:20 PM EST --
Ellie, our fat cat, sits patiently in the kitchen next to her empty bowl. She demolished four ounces of canned cat food earlier this morning. She wonders why her bowl is empty.
She looks at us, then down . . .
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June 20, 2006 09:41 PM EDT --
Vintage Rum
I took advantage of a recent opportunity to visit San Juan, Puerto Rico, and the home of Rum giant Bacardi. There is quite a storied history to their operation, and it includes family ties, . . .
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June 11, 2007 04:18 PM EDT --
By now many of us are familiar with the incredible memoir The Scent of God and its endearing author Beryl Singleton Bissell. But in case you were waiting for the recently released paperback allow me to . . .
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