Holding on Loosely
Opening My Hands, Lightening My Load, and Seeing Something Else

This author takes you slowly through the logic, or lack thereof, of holding on and the advantages of loosing your grip. Maybe its because this reviewer has also seen 50 pass by but I could identify with the author’s point of view and manner in which she is releasing things in order to live a fuller......more

Dana Knox Wright shares her stories of growth as a woman who has lived in this world for six decades. The stories are fresh and most importantly they are real. The realness genuinely comes out because Wright narrates her own book, Holding On Loosely. And I must say that I love, love she narrated her......more

I think that I am a better person now for having read, and related to, Wright and her latest novel. Wait- I said that wrong. I didn’t just relate, I melded into it, it was as though she was telling me her stories, but they were my stories. I kept asking the question “how does she know this?” Written......more

When I began reading Holding On Loosely, I thought that maybe author Dana Knox Wright was a fly on the wall of my life, and she was just reporting what she saw there. So many of the things in this book had a very familiar ring to them. It was almost scary! When the author started in on the laundry li......more

Holding on Loosely by Dana Knox Wright couldn’t have come at a better time in my life. A whole book filled with meaningful stories about letting go. Letting go of material things, old beliefs and behaviors, and even people. Ironically, I am clinging so tightly to those stories about losing people be......more