Podcast 1092: Life Flashes: A Memoir with Merrie H. Reagan

Welcome to another episode of Inside Personal Growth! Joining us is Merrie H. Reagan featuring her book Life Flashes: A Memoir. Merrie H. Reagan is a former educational tutor, a small business owner, and a part-time freelance news and feature article writer. She savors reading, writing, ballroom dancing, singing, homemaking, and yard work. Merrie watches varied public and network television programs including All Things Bright and Beautiful, Call the Midwife, American Idol, Dancing with the Stars, CBS Sunday Morning, and Funny You Should Ask. Life Flashes is Merrie's first book. It was three years after she started writing a diary in 2007 when she began believing that the work could become a book. Though not fully sure why this development occurred, Merrie do know that she had become impassioned with writing and completing the work, even though she did not know how or when it would happen. Life Flashes is an unforgettable memoir about promise, suffering, and unimaginable love which was regularly sprinkled with good humor while being written. It is a stunning combination of diary, memoir, biography, and spiritual commentary, all woven together over a fourteen-year period. Merrie also intertwines key moments of historical record such as Hurricane Sandy, shootings at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, historic George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump presidencies, and a worldwide pandemic to contextualize her personal recollections and musings. You may learn more about Merrie by visiting her website here. Thanks and happy listening!

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