by Cassandra Spellman | Jan 19, 2022 | Humility
It was a Sunday morning. We had just arrived home and there I stood, contentedly flipping some pancakes on the griddle, while everyone else played together in the living room. I love Sunday mornings, I thought to myself. From outside the...
by Cassandra Spellman | Dec 16, 2021 | Birth, Writing
“This is your fifth baby, so you might go quickly.” I stared at my midwife, nodding at her statement, a thousand thoughts running through my mind, mostly trying to process the fact that I would be delivering my baby—not in four weeks as I had assumed—but rather in...
by Cassandra Spellman | Sep 18, 2021 | Book Reviews, Dystopian
A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon. Breach man’s mind. Who knows what might be the target of the well-read man? Guy Montag, protagonist of Fahrenheit 451, is a fireman, though his purpose...
by Cassandra Spellman | Aug 28, 2021 | Death
Life and Death Have you ever been present at someone’s death? It’s a strange feeling, isn’t it? One moment the person is there and the next … he or she is gone. The person’s body is still warm to the touch. Maybe even the blood is still pulsing a little in the veins....
by Cassandra Spellman | Jul 13, 2021 | Book Reviews, Dystopian, Fiction
If people talk about how the United States is politically divisive today, we have something we can learn from Spain in the early 1930s. Jose Maria Gironella’s The Cypresses Believe in God is the Spanish version of the Russian novel: a myriad of characters,...
