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Regina Brett, columnist for The Plain Dealer, learned life's most important lessons the hard way. And she shares them in her first book. She discovered some people, including herself, bruise more easily than others. "It took me 40 years to find and hold onto happiness," she writes. Her book is an anecdotal seminar on keeping life's vicissitudes in their proper perspective. Readers learn such advice as, "When in doubt, just take the next right step; you don't have to win every argument, agree to disagree; and frame every so-called disaster with these words: 'in five years, will this matter?'" Her book debuted at #10 on the New York Times hardcover advice best-seller list. Mr. Feagler welcomes Ms Brett for a discussion of her book and her life as a newspaper columnist.
Cleveland's Greatest Disasters, 16 Tragic Tales of Death and Destruction
Writer and historian John Stark Bellamy II has spent much of his life documenting things that go bump in the night. He turns now to things that go boom in broad daylight. Bellamy's new compendium of catastrophe shines the spotlight on such disasters as the Collinwood school fire, the East Ohio Gas Company explosion and the Cleveland Clinic fire which, combined, took nearly 500 lives. Bellamy takes note of preventable mass transportation accidents that killed dozens and huge fires in the industrial Flats that threatened mass destruction downtown. And he shows such modern-day constructions as the Terminal Tower and the Five-Mile crib are built on foundations mortared with human tragedy.
April 30, 2010