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Home Design: An Interview with Caleigh Cleary

August 8, 2024 / / 0 Comments

Co-Designer Caleigh Cleary

Over the spring and summer semester of 2024, The Teaching Press has been hard at work on our latest project, Home Again and Again, written by Dr. Ann Gentry Recine and Louis Recine. This book is a self-help memoir highlighting the importance of finding and fostering the idea of “home” to lead a happy and fulfilled life.

With this project, The Teaching Press has employed two designers: longtime book designer Emily Heling, and newcomer Caleigh Cleary. What was the experience like for a first-time Teaching Press designer? Project Manager Allie Wendricks asked Caleigh all about it!      Continue reading

“The Beauty and Resilience of Homes”: An Interview with Dr. Ann Gentry Recine

August 6, 2024 / / 0 Comments

Our summer 2024 project is Home Again and Again: Recollections, Stories, Guideposts by Dr. Ann Gentry Recine and Louis Recine. In this engaging memoir, the authors take readers on a journey through Ann’s life of controlled chaos, faith, and positive perspectives. We had to know more about the duo behind it all , so we  jumped at the chance for an exclusive interview.

Dr. Ann Gentry Recine and Louis Recine

Home Again and Again features a lot of your life in Wisconsin. Do you feel you have found a home here in the badger state?

I think my husband and I proved to ourselves that we were Badgers when we sold our house in Eau Claire and moved away from Wisconsin in the 1990s, to a Southern state—only to move back in nine months. Even though our family experienced amazing Southern hospitality, we deeply regretted selling our Eau Claire East Hill house! We were so viscerally homesick for our neighborhood, that we actually bought the house behind our old house. Yes, I can now see that beloved house with its birch trees and lamp post from the window of the room I am writing in. Sigh! We are at home in a Badger state, in a Badger town, and glad of it. Continue reading

Top 10 Reasons to Read Home Again and Again: Recollections, Stories, Guideposts

August 5, 2024 / / 0 Comments

Home Again and Again: Recollections, Stories, Guideposts by Dr. Ann Gentry Recine and Louis Recine is  our Spring/Summer 2024 Teaching Press project, and it is set to launch on August 10th at @ Roots Art and Wine Gallery in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.

Maybe I’m biased—I mean, I was the Project Manager for the our Hard-Penned Press editorial and design services for this book. But I think this debut memoir has it all: a local Wisconsin author, guideposts for reader’s self-reflection, some crazy life experiences, humor, science that can translate into real life situations, and personable writing.

In fact, our entire summer Teaching Press staff helped create a Top 10 list of reasons why Home Again and Again should be your next book purchase:

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Find Yourself Home Again and Again

August 5, 2024 / / 0 Comments

Local Authors Launch New Memoir on Saturday, August 10, at 2 Roots

EAU CLAIRE, WI – 08/05/2024 – In the words of Wisconsin author Dr. Ann Gentry Recine, “People all over the world are interested in stories of losing a home and finding it again, because that is the human story.”

Recine, along with her husband Lou, share this human story in their new book, Home Again and Again: Recollections, Stories, Guideposts, a funny yet moving collection of memories and reflections. A celebration of the book will take place on August 10, 2024 at 5:30 pm at 2 Roots Art & Wine Gallery located at 216 S Barstow St, Eau Claire, WI. This event is free and open to the public. Continue reading

New Book Alert! Home Again and Again: Recollections, Stories, Guideposts

August 4, 2024 / / 0 Comments

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Our Spring and Summer Teaching Press interns have been hard at work on our newest project, Home Again and Again: Recollections, Stories, Guideposts, by Dr. Ann Gentry Recine and Louis Recine.

 In Home Again and Again: Recollections, Stories, Guideposts, Dr. Ann Recine invites readers into her chaotic life-well-lived to explore the concept of “home” and how it’s shaped her into the accomplished woman she is today. Continue reading

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