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by Lara Bryn | December 14, 2017 · 2:30 pm Review: And Then I Am Gone: A Walk With Thoreau Recap: A move to the Southern countryside is not cause for Mathias B. Freese to begin thinking about the end of his life — he’s been doing that for years — but it does trigger it. After all, he’s in his seventies, and this will likely be the place where he dies. Freese reflects on how he got to this moment — where he succeeded and where he stumbled — in his latest memoir. But he also asks the age-old…

Grady Harp HALL OF FAMETOP 500 REVIEWER 5.0 out of 5 stars REVISED: ‘The woods were a testing of your self-awareness, weren’t they?’October 16, 2017 Format: Kindle Edition Mathias B. Freese is a writer, teacher, and psychotherapist. His recent collection of essays, THS MOBIUS STRIP OF IFS, was the winner of the National Indie Excellence Book Award of 2012 in general nonfiction and a 2012 Global Ebook Award finalist. His I TRULY LAMENT: WORKING THROUGH THE HOLOCAUST was one of three finalists chosen in the 2012 Leapfrog Press Fiction Contest out of 424 submissions. The same quality of humanity shines…

Reviewed by Jan Peregrine And Then I Am Gone: A Walk with Thoreau by Mathias B. Freese Wheatmark Paperback: 126 pages, September 22, 2017, ISBN-13: 978-1627875387 Though I’m not a 76-year-old atheist of Jewish background (far from it), nor have I lived in urban New York, Nevada, or rural Alabama (the latter being the setting for his ‘latest philosophical musings) or appreciate Woody Allen’s deprecating humor, I feel a rather bittersweet kinship with Mathias B. Freese, author of And I Am Gone: A Walk With Thoreau. We share an understanding in many ways. In the chaos of sharing a well-appointed…