Home Again Author:Kirsten Chapman Home Again, a gift book for all seasons, traces the seasons of a woman's life. In 142 personal essays, Kirsten Chapman a freelance writer whose weekly column appeared in The Columbus Dispatch from 1995 to 2005 evokes the turning of the years, the turning of our lives. Like her prior book, The Way Home, her new collection recalls a time whe... more »n May baskets hung on doorknobs, when apples heavy and ripe bent a bough low, when a child's sled blazed a trail through the universe. The stories remind us not only of our changing selves but of our changing sense of home. As we become older, Chapman has written, home isn't so much a place but a feeling we take with us and try to replicate for the rest of our lives a feeling of snugness, of being safely gathered in. Watercolor illustrations by Patti Sharpe bring details to life as the author explores her role as daughter, sister, friend, wife, mother and grandmother. Above all, Home Again travels the landscape of the heart letting go of childhood and grown children, holding on to aging parents, welcoming a grandchild. The 352-page book was published in November 2006 by Third Tree Press of Nashville, Tenn.« less