Married to Amazement: A Memoir

Married to Amazement is both a memoir and a celebration of the life passages we all experience with a brush of wonder and amazement. It's not a pollyanna approach, there is loss and error here, nobody escapes pain, but the foundational gifts of author Kathleen Coskran's life have been wonder, through undeserved luck, she says, and an instinct for paying attention. Like Mary Oliver, Coskran too doesn't "... want to end up having simply visited this world."

The first essay quotes a fellow Ethi...