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Please welcome Barbara Barth on Choices today while on her WOW! Women on Writing book tour. This is her second time on Choices and we are thrilled to have her here. Her new book, Sleeping with Dogs: A Poetic Memoir is a poetic memoir on living with and loving rescue dogs. It is Barth's first collection of poems. She calls it a chapbook of second chances.   Here's what Barbara Barth has to say on the first page this new book: "Poems are new to me, so I'm giving this my best. Just as writing was new to me when I lost my husband in 2008. But I managed to do it, a widow memoir followed by more books, self-published, finding a creative path that also included dogs, more dogs than I thought I should. In nine months, a house full of adult pups. With no one to say no, I said YES in all caps. To dogs, to life, to  pushing forward through doubt and fear. "At seventy-six, I've slowed down, or I've learned to just be, at home, with the dogs, time with friends. On the Board of … [Read more...]