Memoir – Polly Castor

Notes from a Young Black Chef (Book Review)
By Polly Castor on August 8, 2020
Get behind the scenes in the life of one black kid from the Bronx who made good.
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Save Me the Plums (Book Review with Recipes)
By Polly Castor on August 9, 2019
If you are interested in the food industry, or in publishing, or in memoirs about working lives rather then...
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Lab Girl (Book Review)
By Polly Castor on September 6, 2018
If you are interested in science, you will be glad to have read this book. In general, Lab Girl...
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Little Princes (Book Review)
By Polly Castor on May 19, 2017
It is always good to read about good prevailing over evil, as well as the resiliency of children even...
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Sweet Life in Paris (Book Review with Hot Chocolate Recipe)
By Polly Castor on May 9, 2017
Never having been to Paris, no other book I've ever read has made me feel more like I have.
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Sunday Sketching (Book Review)
By Polly Castor on March 5, 2017
This is an absolutely wonderful book. It is part memoir, part a book about design and creativity, part humor...
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Book Review: Dinner with Edward
By Polly Castor on December 2, 2016
This sweet, yummy book is a great way to spent an evening. It is a short, loving memoir of...
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Book Review: Soul of an Octopus
By Polly Castor on November 28, 2016
This book challenges our material assumptions about consciousness and the sources of intelligence in an effective and captivating way.
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Book Review: Delancey
By Polly Castor on May 16, 2016
If you want to read a real life story of the struggle behind realizing a dream, you might enjoy...
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Book Review: H is for Hawk
By Polly Castor on April 15, 2016
But regardless of all that, I can't help myself from giving this masterfully written book five stars.
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Book Review: Without Reservations
By Polly Castor on December 7, 2014
This book has been on my reading list for a long time. I dream of travel so I thought...
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Book Review: This is the Story of a Happy Marriage
By Polly Castor on October 17, 2014
I loved this book and give it a radiant five stars. I really enjoyed reading this collection of magazine...
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You are an inspiration to me, and I’m sure to many others. With appreciation for all you do to magnify good!

I look forward to your messages each day, like a delightful gift to unwrap.

I have tremendous admiration for your strength, your depth, your compassion, your passion and your love. You are a woman deeply filled to the brim…

Glorious! Thank you for tending these lovely flowers together, and for posting on your blog, Polly.

Your posts are treasure troves of your beautiful and giving heart.

Your reading challenge has inspired me and given me permission to read again, as previously I had just fitted reading round everything else. Now it is a legitimate activity in my life and I am enjoying it immensely!

What a fine piece! You certainly are a shining example….[it] was uplifting and instructive.

Beautiful photos. It is uplifting and energizing to see such bright, cheerful, healthy and fresh images. Thanks, I needed that!

I wanted you to know that I found the time I spent on your blog to be relaxing, refreshing, inspiring, and totally enjoyable.

Your blog is full of the wonderful, multilayered colors and textures that you play with, and share so unselfishly with the world.

Thanks, Polly, for listening so carefully and sharing so selflessly.

Quite unforgettable. You truly have a way with words: warm; strong; inviting; enlightening; so substantive, and more.

Polly this is absolutely exquisite and so inspiring. I will refer to it often.

Thank you for your transparency of love, your generous sharing of what you are pondering and doing.

Thank you for using this platform to share these references for listening & learning. Now the work required to make a lasting change is up to each of us! ❤️

You are such an inspiring person, Polly, and I love the variety of your activities you share with us all! Thank you so much.

This is absolutely beautiful and so incredibly helpful and inspiring! Thank you so much! ❤️

You are terrific and amazing. In many outstanding ways.

I have so enjoyed your recent posts– about your garden, your reflections about parenting, your vibrant artwork– so many wonderful expressions of Spirit.

You are such a gem Polly- it is an incredible blessing to daily read your blog!

My mother adores your blog and speaks to me often about what recent nugget you shared which she thought was wonderful!

The phrase ‘divine choreography’ is resonating with me. Bless you for sharing your inspiration with us all.

Thank you Polly for this article on supply! I cherish the healing thoughts therein very much, and they are very helpful.

Wow, you outdid yourself this month with your Bits and Clips. It was a wonderful mix of beauty, humor, and thoughtfulness.

Wow, super powerful and definitely what I needed to hear today.

Your site is bolstering my creative thoughts. I need to put them into action.

I so enjoyed your trip blog. The outstanding photos and the amazing narratives made me feel I was on vacation for a few minutes each day.

Thank you for all the inspiration you share so generously. I am deeply grateful!

Your photos are so vivid and expressive and inspiring and artistic and alive!

This is a fantastic article Polly…so much in it, I know I’ll have to re read it at least twice more!

You are … just plain wonderful, Polly! Your blog is bursting with poetry, art, writings, love of God, family, friends, all things great and wonderful and good!

I just adore all of your wonderful posts and everything that you share so generously. ????? You have a beautiful sense of soul that you share – it blesses me and so many!

AUDACIOUSLY GORGEOUS!!!!! (:

Love your blog’s colour and joyfulness and the inspiring leads, Polly. Easy to see why you are much loved. Thank you.

I am simply amazed at the wealth of beauty, soul, and experience. Love it. Love you! Thank You for sharing your innermost so openly.

I always appreciate your reviews. Our fave film in 2019 was The Green Book – which we watched following your recommendation.

This is a beautiful summary and reminder of how we can both individually and collectively dissolve the powerless, baseless lies with Truth. Thank you, Polly!!

When I open my email in the morning I read all the have-to emails first; I save yours to read as dessert. Thanks, Polly!

Love these colours and the strong contrasts Polly!

What an inspiring and uplifting painting. Thanks for sharing your inspiration with the world!

You have a great eye for beauty Polly. I love your blog.

Thank you for passing along such wise words.

Your blog captures a life well lived, constantly imparting good– truth, health and happiness– including beauty, harmony, art, science to the world.

It is always refreshing to see the loves, joys, challenges, and triumphs that you share on your blog.

Oh yum, Polly… These gorgeous photos made my mouth water and my eyes pop!

This blog is simultaneously simple and profound– a perfect, balanced combination of seriousness and light.

WOW! Polly! Some truly marvelous work there!!!

I am so happy to have found your site and to be able to enjoy your expression of Spirit! Love your poetry, your photos, your ideas, your …YOU! THANK you for sharing so abundantly!

I get so happy when I see your paintings. I really do. They bring me such joy. I feel your heart when I see them.

What an incredible blessing and inspiration you are. Thank you so much for your beautiful heart!

I just want to say that I have really been enjoying your blog! It gives me hope for the world…

Thank you so much for this wonderful insight! You put into words what I have been grappling with for a long time. This is just what I needed today.

Thank you for bringing your hydrangeas into my home via the internet. Other flowers are lovely too, but hydrangeas are SPECIAL.

Your art is thrilling.

Your blogs are a delight.

You are my favorite artist. I just have to say it. Your paintings make me so happy.

Polly, I just love your spirit, innovativeness, receptivity to beauty and to God’s goodness expressed. Thank you for your blog.

I salute you! And I sure do thank you for inspiring me to greater efforts along all lines of life!

A powerful message. Thank you for getting it out there.

Your abstracts are interesting and you have a unique style that is all your own. Original, demonstrating individuality and confidence! I see joy and love expressed.

Wow…you have made carrots sexy!

LOVE it. Made me smile while I was reading it.

I want to express my gratitude to you for such a well thought out essay. I found it quite enriching and resonate with those true answers.

I made your fabulous Fish Tacos and they were BEYOND delicious!!

You are so incredibly sweet, gracious, kind, thoughtful, creative, generous, joyful, witty, courageous, tender, persistent, compassionate, brilliant, articulate, ad infinitum!

Magnificent poem. How blest you are to be a poet, photographer, artist, metaphysician, all wrapped up into One.

Polly, your reflection of Soul’s endless creativity is truly wonderful! Thank you for letting the divine shine through you so brightly!

These photos are so wonderful, it really warms the heart.

Thank you for the joy you share. I look forward to reading your posts!

I recently I recommended your blog to a friend saying, “She’s like a dear friend, she just doesn’t know me.” Thank you for all the delight you add to my days!

I have just started this book and am really loving it! Thank you so much for recommending it.

I am a silent regular reader of your daily blog, and I’m finally in touch to tell you how much I like it. I love it!

Thanks for sharing from the seat of your soul with generosity and openness.

Thank you for your ultra positive, upbeat, cheering and cheerful expressions in so many forms. What great seeds to sow in world thought!

Hi Polly, loved this poem. It radiates hope and feeling of calmness. I am glad I came across these beautiful words. Keep posting similar reads and spreading positivity.

I am so totally impressed with your photography, poetry, and painting. Your talent is incredible!!!

Absolutely stunning, Polly. I love the infinite range of ideas, expression, and media in this BIG blog of yours.

The Brussels sprouts were an exceptionally BIG hit here…. could you direct me to more literature on spiritual healing?

Thank you for your burst of sunshine reflected in your positivity this morning… I look forward to your blogs.

Thank you sincerely for your joyful out-pouring of love, light, color, comforting, inspiring words…

Grace is a beautiful quality and you exude it in spades – thanks so much for all you do and are! You are a treasure!

Thank you so much for your fantastic, soulful images– your photos really capture the love, joy, camaraderie, power, and intensity of the present moment.

Thank you Polly–you are always such a clear thinker and always willing to share your God-given gifts.

I feel the joy and love of the color and thought in all your work! You are letting your light shine.

Lovely Polly! You are an inspiration! I am so happy to have your blog in my life!

I loved this post! It gave me much to think about. Thank you for being such a beautiful and prolific source of inspiration. You are a wonder! I’m a fan!

Polly, you are a whiz at living life the way it’s meant to be. I’m fascinated by all you do!

This blog is upbeat, progressive, sincere, colorful, metaphoric, and exploratory. Such a rich feast!

Yes, lots of good flavor triggers in there. I printed it out and will try it. Thanks so much!

I did your tomato tart a few days ago, and it was fabulous! I am vegetarian and look for meals I can make that have lots of flavor. Your tart was just perfect!

Polly, I am absolutely amazed. My mouth was watering! I’ll be thinking about it all night…and tomorrow we will break out the paints!

Your work is always spirited and inspirational.

I for one want to thank you so much for writing this blog. I started about a year ago and look forward to reading it every day. I feel like an armchair adventurer…

I’m grateful for you opening my eyes to the wonders that surround us.

Everything on your site is so colorful, spiritual and alive!

Your eyes are keen and your photographs dynamic.

I love your coffee cake recipe, I have a book list from your blog, I love the photos, the poems, the paintings, the movie reviews, the humor, the honesty, the color.

Yes, healing does happen when we deeply and humbly pray. Thanks for keeping that idea alive.

WONDERFUL blog, Polly! Thank you for your spiritual calm, support for each of us, uninhibited creativity, and amazing paintings. I am just left in awe !

I never before found computers this beautiful….

Your blog is uplifting and enlightening, and seems to speak to me just when I need it most.

Beautifully written, Polly … captures my sentiments exactly.❤️

You are doing so wonderfully at praising God with your talents.

You show us how God’s love shines in all things. You are a blessing!

Thank you Polly!! This has needed to be said for a while!

Way to go on your artistic journey. You show great courage, humility, and such support for everyone around you.

You inspire goodness, wholeness, contentedness and joy.

I have to tell you that your spiritual to-do list was the springboard for a great talk with my older daughter. We are going to check on each other, and progress.

Love your blog. Today’s is dynamite and very helpful to viewing our role as individuals at this time.

This blog deeply resonates while being beautiful, delicious, inspiring, and fun. Not easy to do!

I truly love and am inspired by your blog, including capturing the beauty of life in the moment, teaching by example, taking time with children, and spirituality.

I feel such gratitude for the beautiful way in which you express God. Thanks for blessing my life and being such a shining light in the world!

Such a complete radiance of Soul you are demonstrating. I find it very inspiring!

I love that you live such an active life, have so many interests, and share your insights with me. Your blog is like a conversation with a dear friend.

Sounds delicious and simple! Two of my favorite adjectives!

Every day I look forward to your blog. It’s encouraging me to find ways to express what God reveals in me.

Your blog is very interesting and insightful.

Thank you for the constant good thoughts and beautiful expressions of love and joy that you share on your blog.

Love all you do and express. You’re an amazing role model!!

Thank you for sharing yourself and creativity in such a transparent way, it is very inspiring and humbling to me.

Thank you Polly for your radiant joy and embrace of each of us, wrapping us in your color and beauty of Soul.

I enjoy your strong, bold artwork– there is so much going on in them that my imagination takes off. I really appreciate your blog. It brings joy every day.

Love this– actually so “timely” for what I have been thinking about lately.

I did your 52 books challenge, and loved the structure that it provided to my selections. Doing it again this year too!

Putting the art of poetry, photography and painting into your hands is God’s gift to us who get to read it and see it. Thanks.

Excellent post, dear Polly! Thanks!! There is lots that I relate to in your comments!

What a beautiful spirit you have, shining right through your source.

Very helpful in these seemingly uncertain times. I found a couple of specific ideas expressed here that apply to a specific situation in my life. Thank you!

Loved your plein air painting, the pictures of the garden plenty — oh wow. Love opening your blog each day — it is a treat that I save sometimes.

Just beautiful, Polly. So honest and uplifting. Thanks for sharing your thoughts, and the helpful ones of others.

Keep up the good work. You are an inspiration! I love reading your blog with it’s many insights.

Thank you for sharing such a personal, and at the same time, universal, love of beauty.

This is absolutely magnificent. Bless your precious and beautiful soul for sharing this.

You encourage me to grow with your everyday wisdom and your lovely contributions.

Polly, your wonderful blog is doing more than its bit in this dreadful time. Thanks, and keep on keeping on!

Love your blog. Today’s was dynamite, and very helpful for understanding our role as individuals at this time.

Polly Castor

Fostering a new renaissance through creativity, authenticity, spirituality, and art

Posts tagged with ‘Memoir’

Notes from a Young Black Chef (Book Review)

Save Me the Plums (Book Review with Recipes)

Lab Girl (Book Review)

Little Princes (Book Review)

Sweet Life in Paris (Book Review with Hot Chocolate Recipe)

Sunday Sketching (Book Review)

Book Review: Dinner with Edward

Book Review: Soul of an Octopus

Book Review: Delancey

Book Review: H is for Hawk

Book Review: Without Reservations

Book Review: This is the Story of a Happy Marriage

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