“Philosophical Disquisitions is truly an unexpected collection of musings on friendship, aging, family, and the oddities of life...”
Denise Issert's Philosophical Disquisitions paints a cheerful and sentimental family portrait of a transitional period in American rural local history that has
almost been lost to memory. She recalls with touching detail the way life was lived by the hard-working farmer families of the Illinois prairie after the middle
of the last century. But her backward glance brings her recollections of grandparents, friends, neighbors and other contacts into a present that is rich with her
own children and extended family in that changing world. Her troubled reflections about the disagreement with a family member about whether or not it is
correct to acknowledge the family's Confederate past is a tour de force, telescoping past into present, private into public. The book is lighthearted and serious,
charming and hopeful.
"Issert describes live stories that could be that of any reader. If you are a mother, a friend, a grandmother, a sibling,
perhaps you grew up amid family chaos, or even if you’re a man who shares life with one of these people, then this collection
of essays will delight you....”
“Have you ever wondered what it would be like to have Theodore Roosevelt sitting at your dining room table? Do you ever
long to have a heart to heart with one of your long deceased relatives? How many family tales are buried, never to be
retold? Isserian Tales: Dinners at Eight answers these questions, and many more. This collection of provocative thought
provoking short stories can’t help but inspire you to experience a crisper awareness into your own family history…”
“5 star, and I am very happy with your services”
“Philosophical Disquisitions is truly an unexpected collection of musings on friendship, aging, family, and the oddities of life...”
"Issert describes live stories that could be that of any reader. If you are a mother, a friend, a grandmother, a sibling,
perhaps you grew up amid family chaos, or even if you’re a man who shares life with one of these people, then this collection
of essays will delight you....”
“Have you ever wondered what it would be like to have Theodore Roosevelt sitting at your dining room table? Do you ever
long to have a heart to heart with one of your long deceased relatives? How many family tales are buried, never to be
retold? Isserian Tales: Dinners at Eight answers these questions, and many more. This collection of provocative thought
provoking short stories can’t help but inspire you to experience a crisper awareness into your own family histo
Denise Issert's Philosophical Disquisitions paints a cheerful and sentimental family portrait of a transitional period in American rural local history that has
almost been lost to memory. She recalls with touching detail the way life was lived by the hard-working farmer families of the Illinois prairie after the middle
of the last century. But her backward glance brings her recollections of grandparents, friends, neighbors and other contacts into a present that is rich with her
own children and extended family in that changing world. Her troubled reflections about the disagreement with a family member about whether or not it is
correct to acknowledge the family's Confederate past is a tour de force, telescoping past into present, private into public. The book is lighthearted and serious,
charming and hopeful.
"Issert describes live stories that could be that of any reader. If you are a mother, a friend, a grandmother, a sibling,
perhaps you grew up amid family chaos, or even if you’re a man who shares life with one of these people, then this collection
of essays will delight you....”
“Have you ever wondered what it would be like to have Theodore Roosevelt sitting at your dining room table? Do you ever
long to have a heart to heart with one of your long deceased relatives? How many family tales are buried, never to be
retold? Isserian Tales: Dinners at Eight answers these questions, and many more. This collection of provocative thought
provoking short stories can’t help but inspire you to experience a crisper awareness into your own family history…”
“5 star, and I am very happy with your services”
“Philosophical Disquisitions is truly an unexpected collection of musings on friendship, aging, family, and the oddities of life...”
"Issert describes live stories that could be that of any reader. If you are a mother, a friend, a grandmother, a sibling,
perhaps you grew up amid family chaos, or even if you’re a man who shares life with one of these people, then this collection
of essays will delight you....”
“Have you ever wondered what it would be like to have Theodore Roosevelt sitting at your dining room table? Do you ever
long to have a heart to heart with one of your long deceased relatives? How many family tales are buried, never to be
retold? Isserian Tales: Dinners at Eight answers these questions, and many more. This collection of provocative thought
provoking short stories can’t help but inspire you to experience a crisper awareness into your own family histo