What Was I Thinking: A Life Story

by Celestine Favrot Arndt

Overview

What Was I Thinking? is both a witty memoir and a thoughtful meditation on life--an attempt to distill insight from a lifetime of experience. Touching on both singular events and the dramas common to all human beings, Ms. Arndt writes honestly on childhood, adolescence, college, marriage, motherhood, living overseas, challenges, failures, loss, grief, family, friendship, gratitude, and joy. A luminous and illuminating life story.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940186061243
Publisher:	Gatekeeper Press
Publication date:	12/15/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	16 MB
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About the Author

Celestine Favrot Arndt was born in 1940 and grew up in Mexico City and Houston, Texas. She studied philosophy at Wellesley and UC Berkeley, and raised four boys while living in Taiwan, India, Sri Lanka, and Virginia. Ms. Arndt also earned an MA in Sociology for fieldwork she did on Ayurvedic medicine while staying with Buddhist monks in a small mountain village in Sri Lanka. She wrote this book at the end of her life, as she fought ovarian cancer, and she died in 2018 surrounded by her beloved friends and family.