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Patberg, Judythe Pearson

 
9781436344593: A WINTER SABBATICAL: Returning Home in Middle Age to Cornbread, the Northern Lights, and Wolves

Synopsis

A Winter Sabbatical is the story of a middle-aged woman's return to the place where she grew up. The idea of taking her young sons to live in Northern Minnesota without her husband was born out of academia's tradition of encouraging professors to take a sabbatical from teaching every seven years. It took hold when her husband gave her his blessing. She set out with four objectives in mind, all of which received some kind of closure at the end of her sojourn. A surprising feature of the memoir is the pursuit of an objective that was never identified in the beginning.

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Biographie de l'auteur

Judy Patberg is an editor and author of We Just Shoveled Two Feet of Partly Cloudy, a family memoir, and From Peace Corps with Love, a book about her experiences as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the early 70s. She is also a co-author of Teaching Comprehension, a text for educators and parents on strategies for teaching reading comprehension. Judy teaches literacy at The University of Toledo and trains tutors in adult basic education at Read for Literacy. She and her husband live in Toledo, Ohio, where they raised three sons, who are now pursuing lives of their own in various parts of the world.

Présentation de l'éditeur

A Winter Sabbatical is the story of a middle-aged woman's return to the place where she grew up. The idea of taking her young sons to live in Northern Minnesota without her husband was born out of academia's tradition of encouraging professors to take a sabbatical from teaching every seven years. It took hold when her husband gave her his blessing. She set out with four objectives in mind, all of which received some kind of closure at the end of her sojourn. A surprising feature of the memoir is the pursuit of an objective that was never identified in the beginning.

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