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Memory in Silhouette
Every moment is a memory and every memory is a moment. Memories are moments that build on one another to create the foundation of who we are at any given point in life. Memories - good, bad, and neutral - meld within our minds and hearts housing love, hate, pleasure, fear, anger, and happiness. With each memory we make, we become more compassionate, and therefore more connected to the world around us. Our strengths and weaknesses live in our memories creating the complexity and simplicity that encompasses the full human experience. Come along to discover how moments blossom into growth or become merely a memory in silhouette…
144 pages, Paperback
First published June 20, 2012
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About the author
T.L. Cooper
15 books46 followersT. L. Cooper started reading as a child and never stopped. She enjoyed reading so much she began weaving storytelling and social justice at a very young age when she attempted to save a groundhog’s life by creating an adventurous and full life for him in her stories while sitting on her grandpa’s knees.
Inspired in part by the stories she read, she wrote stories casting her classmates and herself as heroes and villains.
By the time she started college at Eastern Kentucky University she’d developed a keen interest in human behavior and motivation, so she studied Corrections and Juvenile Services and Psychology. Her written work continued to explore human interaction and motivation though her reading focused more on the academic during this time period.
After college she worked as a counselor with troubled teenagers, a project coordinator, a registrar assistant, and a temp before becoming a full-time author.
She has traveled extensively throughout the world feeding her passion for meeting new people and discovering both the similarities and the differences in the way people live.
Books have continued to play an important role in her life as she moved from one place and one moment to the next. She loves to discuss books and, particularly, to share books she loves with others.
Her work has been published in magazines, anthologies, books, and online. She has authored five books of poetry, two books of short stories, and a novel. She also writes three blogs, Write with TLC, Reviews with TLC, and Vegan Cooking with TLC.
In addition to reading and writing, she enjoys yoga, meditation, hiking, golf, cooking, and interesting conversation.
Currently, she resides with her husband, three cats, and many shelves of books, both read and unread, in Albany, Oregon.
Inspired in part by the stories she read, she wrote stories casting her classmates and herself as heroes and villains.
By the time she started college at Eastern Kentucky University she’d developed a keen interest in human behavior and motivation, so she studied Corrections and Juvenile Services and Psychology. Her written work continued to explore human interaction and motivation though her reading focused more on the academic during this time period.
After college she worked as a counselor with troubled teenagers, a project coordinator, a registrar assistant, and a temp before becoming a full-time author.
She has traveled extensively throughout the world feeding her passion for meeting new people and discovering both the similarities and the differences in the way people live.
Books have continued to play an important role in her life as she moved from one place and one moment to the next. She loves to discuss books and, particularly, to share books she loves with others.
Her work has been published in magazines, anthologies, books, and online. She has authored five books of poetry, two books of short stories, and a novel. She also writes three blogs, Write with TLC, Reviews with TLC, and Vegan Cooking with TLC.
In addition to reading and writing, she enjoys yoga, meditation, hiking, golf, cooking, and interesting conversation.
Currently, she resides with her husband, three cats, and many shelves of books, both read and unread, in Albany, Oregon.
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February 6, 2025I claim no expertise in poetry. I judge it entirely on whether I like it or not. So, take anything I say with a grain of salt. Some of Cooper's poems I liked, some I didn't. But the vast majority of them I had no opinion on because they made no impact on me, which leaves me thinking they're rather mundane. The book definitely has a discernable and satisfying order to the poems, though. I felt I'd been on a bit of a journey with the author. I hope she gets (or got) that second, second, second chance.
August 10, 2012
Memory… a vapor of smoke, like a subtle trail of incense that envelopes the mind and saturates the heart. This is what T.L. Cooper has done in Memories in Silhouette, published by TLC Press. With the quiet voice of memory, and the sonorous reverberations of a Kentucky thunderstorm, Cooper invokes the thoughts and feelings of yesterday and today’s growth and wraps them in synergy. I found myself laughing aloud and then quietly recalling images from long ago times and events. This is the power of T.L. Cooper’s pen. Take the time, you won’t regret it, and join T.L Cooper on a quiet walk along the shadowed paths of Memories in Silhouette.
April 22, 2018
This is a beautiful book. It will make you think and reflect and definitely feel. Very relate-able poetry that will have you looking back and reflecting.
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