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Reba Riley Post-Traumatic Church Syndrome by Reba Riley

Post-Traumatic Church Syndrome by Reba Riley

December 11, 2015December 9, 2018

Reba Riley was raised in an Evangelical Pentecostal household where they used Jesus-themed paper napkins. After high school, she went to ministry training but started questioning her faith when her parents got a divorce. Later, when she left the Church, she experienced a total loss of identity or, as she likes to call it, post-traumatic church syndrome. Then she started to feel really sick, and doctors were not able to…

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Guest Post The Book of Colors by Raymond Barfield

The relationship between writing and doctoring

October 28, 2015April 12, 2019

The following is a guest post by Raymond Barfield, author of The Book of Colors. If you would like to write a guest post on my blog, please send me an e-mail at contact@cecilesune.com. I graduated from medical school in 1993 and from residency in 1996.  Work hour limits for medical students and residents were established in 1997 (the new rule was that students and residents can work no more than 80…

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George Schnaider Impressions and Expressions by George Schnaider

Poems from Life’s Precipice

May 25, 2015December 9, 2018

The following is a guest post by George Schnaider, author of Impressions and Expressions. If you would like to write a guest post on my blog, please send me an e-mail at contact@cecilesune.com. In 1984, I was struck by a car while I was walking along the shoulder of a road. I was nearly killed. I spent three weeks in a coma, four weeks connected to a life support machine, seven…

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Review Memoirs of a Stranger by Tamar Douglas

Memoirs of a Stranger by Tamar Douglas

February 13, 2015December 9, 2018

Asha Shakes was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and now lives in the US. She is desperately trying to get rid of her culture, as she believes it weighs her down. At the same time, she develops all kinds of conditions (paranoia, OCD, claustrophobia, agoraphobia, delusions), and she ends up being admitted against her will to a mental health hospital. During her stay there, she only trusts one therapist, Dr. Gayle….

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Guest Post The Tragedy of Fidel Castro by João Cerqueira

The Tragedy of Fidel Castro by João Cerqueira

September 16, 2014December 9, 2018

The following is a guest post by João Cerqueira, author of The Tragedy of Fidel Castro. If you would like to write a guest post on my blog, please send me an e-mail at contact@cecilesune.com. It was through Portuguese writers – Camões, Fernando Pessoa, José Saramago, Lobo Antunes –  that I learned to write. Hence my belief that form – that is, command of language – is as or more…

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