The Things I Wish I’d Said

$12.95

2004, McKenna Publishing Group
Paperback, 236 pages.
Ever wish you could go back and give a better answer when questioned by someone out of the blue? Former newspaper columnist Michele VanOrt Cozzens goes back to columns she wrote in the early 1990s and rebuts them with what she’d say today.

“I know it’s happened to you . . . You find yourself in a situation that takes you by surprise. A confrontation, perhaps, and you’re expected to respond. You say what immediately comes to mind or something simple, maybe even inane and walk away. Seconds later the perfect comeback line pops into your brain and you wish in vain for the opportunity to push an imaginary rewind button to recite the enlightened script inside your head.”

In her second book, The Things I Wish I’d Said, Michele Cozzens revisits a selection of previously published newspaper columns to offer observations on the same topics with a new perspective, contemplating the things she wishes she’d said.

In this sometimes wry but always warm look at family life, The Things I Wish I’d Said reprints columns published in the early 1990s from her weekly Lifestyle feature in The Montclarion newspaper, where the criteria was everything had to be true and not too political. The author then responds to each piece with what she calls “a more mature eye and a bit mushier brain.” She responds first and foremost as a mother.

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