June 2nd, 2007

Reflections on a Changing Family - A Recipe Book of Life with Linda Knebel Pruden

Linda Knebel Pruden, a mother of three grown children, lives in St. Paul, Minnesota with her husband, Rob. She received a Master of Science degree in speech/language pathology from Purdue University. Although she has written five books for teachers, this is her first book for the general public. With a sense of honesty and fun, Linda also conducts seminars designed to empower students of all ages. For more information on Linda and/or her seminars visit her website: www.reflectionsonachangingfamily.com

What experiences are you thankful for?

The question is deceptively simple. But when Linda Knebel Pruden asked it, she found herself on a spiritual quest spanning a hundred years of American history. Reaching beyond memoir, Linda looks to her parents’ and grandparents’ lives to uncover the roots of the problems that surface again and again in her own life.

She finds tangled knots of stubbornness, mental illness, and determined self-sufficiency, but also great faith and unspoken depths of love. Triggering memories with the recipes of her immigrant heritage, she learns to appreciate both the triumphs and the losses that shaped her life, even decades before her birth.

Join Linda in listening for the truths that call to us again and again in our lives, and in celebrating everything we have to learn from and teach each other.