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Reviews of What I Thought I Knew
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From the Biography Shelf of the October 2008 edition of The Midwest Book Review:
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What I Thought I Knew
Everyone thinks they know it all, when they clearly don’t. “What I Thought I Knew” is a collection of reflective essays from Barbara Stahura. She goes through life with an open mind, and learns new things daily, leading her to advance forward and look back on her life and give herself insight on what she has learned over the last few years. “What I Thought I Knew” is poignant, entertaining, and many readers will find a bit of themselves as they go through Stahura’s writings.
Everyone thinks they know it all, when they clearly don’t. “What I Thought I Knew” is a collection of reflective essays from Barbara Stahura. She goes through life with an open mind, and learns new things daily, leading her to advance forward and look back on her life and give herself insight on what she has learned over the last few years. “What I Thought I Knew” is poignant, entertaining, and many readers will find a bit of themselves as they go through Stahura’s writings.
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From the Nov. 13, 2008, issue of Tucson Weekly
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(reprinted with permission)
http://www.tucsonweekly.com/gbase/Books/Content?oid=oid:118425
Trying Something New
Tucsonan Barbara Stahura tells her inspiring story in a series of personal essays
By Paul Wine
http://www.tucsonweekly.com/gbase/Books/Content?oid=oid:118425
Trying Something New
Tucsonan Barbara Stahura tells her inspiring story in a series of personal essays
By Paul Wine
What I Thought I Knew, by Barbara Stahura. Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing, $15.00
In 1993, Barbara Stahura was making $30,000 a year working as a public-information writer for a utility company in Evansville, Ind. A lover of books since childhood, she had felt, for most of her life, an urge to write.
However, this position--her first writing job, begun seven years earlier--had turned into a nightmare. Harassed by a bad-tempered boss and besieged by depression and constant headaches, Stahura felt caged in the dull, enervating corporate world. Yet she couldn’t bring herself to quit, because that meant giving up the security of a steady paycheck. (continued)
However, this position--her first writing job, begun seven years earlier--had turned into a nightmare. Harassed by a bad-tempered boss and besieged by depression and constant headaches, Stahura felt caged in the dull, enervating corporate world. Yet she couldn’t bring herself to quit, because that meant giving up the security of a steady paycheck. (continued)
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Review by Becky Allen in Open Roads, July 2008
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In her first collection of personal essays titled What I Thought I Knew, Barbara Stahura raises the bar for essay writers and readers alike. Her voice is clear, her writing clean and tight, and downright elegant. Stahura has years of interview experience with the likes of Deepak Chopra, Wayne Dyer, Don Miguel Ruiz, Louise Hay, biologist Bruce Lipton, and artist Valarie James (to name but a few.) She’s no stranger to provocative questions and digging deep for answers. (continued)