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Press releases
House of Hope closes Authors Series
in pajamas
PRESS RELEASE DATE: FEB. 23, 2011
Read more about the
Authors Series
The final chapter of the
inaugural Authors Series to Benefit House of
Hope is March 10 and features Dominique
Browning, author of “Slow Love: How I Lost My
Job, Put on My Pajamas & Found Happiness.”
Browning’s job as
editor-in-chief of House & Garden
magazine had defined her days and her identity
for 13 years. When the magazine folded in 2007,
she was shaken to the core. She was an editor, a
mother and a have-it-all achiever who was forced
– at age 52 – to slow down her life and pick up
the pieces.
Browning will appear 7 p.m.
to 8:30 p.m. March 10 in the Wolf
High-Technology Center at Indian River State
College’s Chastain Campus, 2400 SE Salerno Road,
Stuart. A complimentary wine reception for
ticketholders begins at 6:15 p.m.
Browning will address the
audience, participate in a Q&A and then be
available for autographing books, which will be
on sale by Barnes & Noble at the venue. All
ticket sale proceeds and a portion of the book
sale proceeds benefit House of Hope.
Tickets are $30, but are
half-price if you bring a new set of children’s
pajamas to be donated to House of Hope. You can
order tickets or make reservations by calling
(772) 286-4673, visiting
www.hohmartin.org, or by stopping by House
of Hope, 2484 SE Bonita St., Stuart.
Stephen Schramm of HBK
Sorce Financial is the lead sponsor of this
edition of the Authors Series to Benefit House
of Hope.
House of Hope provides
food, clothing, household necessities, financial
assistance and life-changing case management
services for Martin County residents in need.
All four locations operate a resale store, a
food pantry and connect people to the agency’s
assistance programs.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dominique Browning’s career
trajectory includes being a top editor at
Esquire, Texas Monthly and Mirabella
magazines. She broke the glass ceiling at
Newsweek as the first woman at any newsmagazine
to be appointed an assistant managing editor.
For 13 years, Browning was
the editor-in-chief of House & Garden, a
magazine with 950,000 readers. Then, in a
ruthless and unexpected move in early 2007, the
magazine was folded, leaving Browning without a
job and an identity.
In “Slow Love,” Browning
writes:
“I have always had a job. I have always
supported myself. Everything I own I purchased
with money that I earned. I worked hard. For the
35 years I’ve been an adult, I have had an
office to go to and a time to show up there. …
Without work, who was I? I do not mean that my
title defined me. What did define me was the
simple act of working. The loss of my job
triggered a cascade of self-doubt and
depression. I felt like a failure. Not that the
magazine had failed — that I had.”
She began wondering what
all that juggling of family and work had all
been for.
“I started thinking I
needed to figure out why I was so dismayed about
losing my job,” she said in an interview with
The Globe and Mail of Toronto. “And I ended
up feeling that what I needed to think about is
this midlife passage I’m in. Because all the
wheels are falling off the wagon, not just work.
It’s that I have to think about health,
mortality, motherhood, being a partner,
creativity, all those things.”
The author faced a job
loss, a health crisis and a troubled
relationship, but Browning acknowledges that
“Slow Love” isn’t a representative tale of
unemployment and financial ruin. Rather, it’s
about psychological collapse and rebuilding
one’s life. An NPR reviewer noted that “it reads
more like a female romance about
self-resilience, much like Elizabeth Gilbert's
juggernaut ‘Eat, Pray, Love.’”
As Browning learns to slow
down and recover from her identity crisis, she
calls her shift in focus "slow love," which she
says is "about knowing what you've got before
it's gone."
More info:
Browning’s Web site
A ‘Slow Love’ excerpt
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