We decided to read two articles from More Magazine this month because of our scattered vacation schedules and it was only two weeks from our last book club. The first article was “Were did our friendship go wrong? by Jacquelyn Mitchard. Mitchard’s first novel “The Deep End of the Ocean,” was incredible, so I was excited to read this article in the July/August edition.
The article chronicles Mitchard’s break up with a close friend. All should note, never piss off a writer, it will come back to haunt you. Mitchard morns the lost of her friend, and you feel her anguish throughout the story. She tried hard to make up, but finally was forced to accept the fact that the friendship was over. As the group Goyte sings, “Now you’re just someone that I used to know.”
The second story was in the same issue and titled “Resilient.” It’s the true story of Michelle Glenn and her miraculous survival after being attacked by a shark. She was lucky that the boat had doctors on it. Glenn states that while in the hospital she had to focus on something every minute, or she would relive the shark attack over and over. Quite clearly Glenn took action both in the attack and the aftermath towards her recovery. The shark took a chunk out of her armpit and part of her shoulder, which hemorrhaged. It took 7 1/2 hours to get back to land. She knew it was really up to her and she forced herself to stay awake through all the pain. That’s just the beginning of her long ordeal. She is incredibly brave and full of positive feelings and that’s what it took to overcome this devastation. Quite a story. Of course, not the best story before vacation, and we definitely thought a little before going in the ocean.
