Twelve Days Of Christmas

About the Book

Twelve Days of Christmas is all about very vivid memories and the emotions they evoke. The first five "days" (i.e. chapters) recount traumatic experiences from early childhood: first awareness of terror, rage, remorse, disbelief, rejection, embarrassment. The remaining chapters continue the theme but with an adult perspective — and elation is included among the emotions experienced.

About the Author

Jean Praninskas is a former professor of English language and Linguistics, now many years retired from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. During her working years she also taught in Greece, Poland, Lebanon, and Afghanistan. She helped to train Peace Corps Volunteers and other teachers of English as a Second Language. She now lives in a CCRC (continuing care retirement community) with a lot of other old folks and her loving cat, Ginger.