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"Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive." Barry Lopez

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Welcome!

If you believe books can help us survive adversity, heal, live more fully, and change in ways we never thought we could – or if you simply can’t live without books – this blog is for you.

I grew up in a family affected by mental illness. For me, books were a lifeline – my mentors and teachers, my inspiration, my passage to different worlds both real and imagined.

Books Can Save a Life is about literary fiction and nonfiction that touch us personally, enrich our lives, and awe us with the beauty and power of good writing.

Books can save lives on a grand scale, too, so you’ll also find here writers with provocative things to say about our future. 

My Excavating a Life posts about the memoir writing life include wisdom from artists & writers who can inspire our creative practices. 

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If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where they are needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive. That is why we put these stories in each other's memory. This is how people care for themselves.

Crow and Weasel, by Barry Lopez

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