Mya Breman uses craniosacral therapy to relieve tension and pain. Breman (right) calls it ‘body psychology.’ Photos provided
By Joyce Reingold
In her serene, sun-splashed patch of paradise in the Ocean Ridge Yacht Club, Gayle “Mya” Breman found bo
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Rabbi Ruvi New of the Boca Beach Chabad speaks at the inaugural Women of Valor brunch in January. New invited women to share stories of courage and commitment for the Chabad’s book, due to be published early next year. Photo provided
By Janis Fontai
Return of the Swallows, by Dorothea Praschma. Amazon; 280 pp., $15.99
By Steve Pike
Dorothea Praschma’s granite boulder gravestone in South Africa’s Transvaal reads: “She Gave a Dog a Bone.’’
Through memoirs that span 1935 to 1947, Dorothy, Counte
Delray Beach librarian Isabella Rowan (pink shirt) is surrounded by children holding books they received in the Kenya Library Project. Rowan already has books for next year’s trip. Photo provided
By Lucy Lazarony
Delray Beach librarian Isabella Rowan
Sophie and Sabrina Ginsburg with Bailey (left) and Prince, who left service dog training after he developed Addison’s disease. Photo provided
By Arden Moore
Meet the tail-wagging, always happy Prince, who reigns as a prince among pups. And credit sis
Memory Road By Dick Schmidt. Landslide Publishing, 294 pp., $15.95
By Steve Pike
A lot of movies and TV shows are inspired by books. But for his second book, Boca Raton author Richard Schmidt has flipped the script, so to speak. Schmidt’s hero in Me
Time to pull out the reading glasses. The Literacy Coalition of Palm Beach County’s ninth annual “one book, one community” reading campaign is underway and runs through early December.
The aim of the campaign, called “Read Together Palm Bea
By Steve Pike
You know that feeling you get when you hear a song on the radio that brings back a memory? It’s as if you’re transported back to that moment in time — to the sights, sounds and smells of another lifetime.
Ann Purcell transports yo
Maria Nhambu holds her book, 'Africa’s Child,' at her coastal Delray Beach condo.
The book is the first of a planned three-part memoir.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
Her name is Maria Nhambu but she prefers to be called Nhambu.
It is a name t
Tony Arruza (top. Photo by Thom Smith/The Coastal Star) took this photo of mullet leaping as a shark approaches. Ron Heavyside (below) shaped the surfboard. Photos by Tony Arruza
15 legendary surf masters create boards
with photographer’s images fr
Donn Colee Jr. at the original studios of Lake Worth’s ‘All-Girl’ radio station WLIZ, now transmitter site for WWRF, ‘Radio Fiesta.’ Thom Smith/The Coastal Star
By Thom Smith
Long before Florida became a state, the Colee family was setting the sta
Charity Bashed,
By Sharon Geltner
PoloPublishing, 210 pp., $15.95
By Steve Pike
The old adage that writers write what they know about has never held more true than with Sharon Geltner. The Boca Raton resident has spent the past several years raisi
Author Bettie Bearden Pardee spoke about her book, Living Newport,
and the impressive historic preservation and garden lushness of that famous Rhode Island enclave.
Photo: (l-r) club member Cecile McCaull, Pardee and Grass River President Holly Breed
By Steve Pike
“If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
True to Dr. King’s words, Lee DiPietro knows only one direction — f
By Steve Pike
Ann Purcell remembered the first time she met the maharishi Mahesh Yogi in Seelisberg, Switzerland, in 1974.
“I had to walk up eight flights of stairs to get to a meeting room,’’ said Purcell, whose book The Transcendental Meditation
By Steve Pike
New directions and construction mask some of it now, but there was a time — not that long ago — when Delray Beach truly was a Village by the Sea. Sandy Simon knows all about that. Simon, whose grandfather immigrated to Delray Beach
By Teresa Bono
When you’ve done as many good deeds as Farm Sanctuary President, Gene Baur, you’re bound to get a good karmic return. So when the Dietary Council Association 2015 report endorsed a plant-based diet for better health and a greener pla
By Steve Pike
Sometimes fiction makes the best truth.
Bob Brink looked up from his plate of fried mushrooms and smiled at the notion.
“That’s it in a nutshell,” said Brink, a former reporter for The Palm Beach Post and Palm Beach Illustrated magazine. “
By Steve Pike
It’s always a challenge and risk for an author to write about a well-known historical figure. When that figure is Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna, youngest daughter of Russian Czar Nicholas II, the bar is raised even higher.
In his
By Steve Pike
Talk about killer real estate. Ocean Ridge resident Terry Halfhill’s third self-published novel, The Briny Brotherhood, tells the purely fictional story of living, killing and dying in Briny Breezes as the book’s different characte
