Thank you!

by Barbara Lawrence on 02/15/13

You are the person for whom I wrote this book, and it is wonderful to hear from you! I was so pleased to read your blog - and your post reminds me that I too have a blog that I have completely forgotten.

It means a great deal to me that you find The Hungry i helpful, and I wonder if it would be all right if I posted your comment on my website. Unfortunately, too few people want to even admit that men and boys are vulnerable to eating disorders and there is very little help available to them or their families.

Let me know how you're doing.

Barbara

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It's an odd mix of photographs, I agree: The cover of The Hungry i: A workbook for partners of men with eating disorders (that's me with Johanna Kandel, Director of The Alliance for Eating Disorders, launching the book in Florida this winter. Then there's a photograph looking towards the outer islands off the coast of Mount Desert Island, the setting for my novel, Islands of Time. The next photograph, taken in the fall of 1939, shows my mother Barbara Kent Greene, and her brother Ralph Kent Green, just as she signed up for the Voluntary Aid Detachment, and was hastily trained to take the place of fully trained nurses during World War II. No, that isn't a typo. Her last name was originally Green, but she changed it to Greene when she made her first film in 1936. My uncle Kent signed up for the army 9 days after Great Britain declared war on Germany in September, 1939. At the time I think this photograph was taken, he was just about to leave for France where he served with the British Expeditionary Forces, and was later rescued from the beaches of Dunkirk when the German Army stormed into France. The last photograph is of me when my partner Bob and I were in Florida.

EXPLANATION OF TEXT COLORS: We'll discuss three major topics about which I've written or am writing books and articles: EATING DISORDERS IN MEN (BLACK), new writing (TEAL) WORLD WAR II (NAVY BLUE), and SMALL SCHOOLS (GREEN). If a topic doesn't fit within these confines I'll write it in ORANGE. I hope this system will help you find posts that interest you, and avoid those that don't.