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We hear that elders without the means to hire help don’t deserve a few public dollars to receive a hot meal and see a kind face. Because they should have had the foresight to grow rich and if they didn’t, it’s time for them to succumb to hunger.

Yet, every one of us benefits from many people’s labor for which they are paid but modestly.

Go out on the street today. Are they clean? That’s because of the sanitation workers you feel do not deserve life.

Can you read this? That’s because of the teachers you feel deserve to freeze.

Going to church today? It’s there because of the clergy and church secretaries you think should receive no medical care.

Did you buy food? Someone stocked those shelves-someone you would see starve.

The nursing associates who watched over you in the night when you were in the hospital cannot and would not take your life and health back.

Your teachers will not take back the knowledge we gave you, though you wish us so ill.

The garbage man will ensure clean streets tomorrow; the church folks will pray for your soul.

To those imposing the cuts: You will not defeat us. You are defeating your soul.

I’m very pleased to report the launch of Virtual Book Group–which has chosen my book, Broken Patterns, Professional Women and the Quest for a New Feminine Identity as its featured summer read.

Virtual Book Group is an exciting new venture of digital marketing guru (and chief operating bookworm) Christina Inge. Readers from all over the world can to join for free to share their thoughts about selected books and related topics with one another and with authors, over time.

Inge said: “We created Virtual Book Group for people who love books, and love talking about them–whenever and wherever they are.

“This summer, we’ll be reading Broken Patterns: Professional Women and the Quest for a New Feminine Identity. Based on interviews with women who entered male-dominated careers in the 1970s and 1980s, Boston author and reporter Anita M. Harris looks at the intergenerational patterns of women’s lives. She shows how the experiences of mothers and grandmothers influence career decisions, and traces the impact of rapid technological and social change on family structures, psyches, and gender roles.

“As with all summer books, ours is full of great stories, riveting drama, and lessons learned. But it’s not a potboiler. It’s an eye-opening look at generations of women in the workforce that picks up where Lean In leaves off.”

As the author, I’ll be chiming in for online and video chats through August–and, possibly, beyond.

It’s free to join–but you do need to REGISTER.
If you’d like to buy Broken Patterns, It’s available at the Harvard Bookstore, on Amazon and Kindle...as well as Kobo, Apple, Inktera, Nook, Page Foundry and Scribd. You can find more information, photos, readers’ comments and tell your own story at Brokenpatternsbook.com.

–Anita M. Harris

Anita M. Harris is an author and communications consultant based in Cambridge, MA.
New Cambridge Observer is a publication the Harris Communications Group, an award-winning marketing and PR firm located in kendall Square, Cambridge.

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Virtual Book Group launches with Broken Patterns as featured summer read

I’m very pleased to report the launch of Virtual Book Group–which has chosen my book, Broken Patterns, Professional Women and the Quest for a New Feminine Identity as its featured summer read.

Virtual Book Group is an exciting new venture of digital marketing guru (and chief operating bookworm) Christina Inge. Readers from all over the world can to join for free to share their thoughts about selected books and related topics with one another and with authors, over time.