Reflections: A Wardrobe of Life Lessons

The fourteen essays in Reflections: A Wardrobe of Life Lessons offer bright glimpses into a richly lived life filled with curiosity, wisdom, grace -- and dresses. With humor and honesty, Linda Styles Berkery tells personal stories through dresses, combining colors and fabrics with memories and meaning. These stories range from Berkery’s childhood, growing up in a funeral home watching many black dresses enter and leave the house -- and asking her father, “Do we live in a church?” -- to young motherhood when she buries her first maternity dress under a lilac bush, to mature adulthood when she discovers significance in the colors of her “reunion” dress after meeting the families of Danish fishermen who saved her father’s life in World War II. These heartfelt, entertaining stories unearth life lessons involving love, loss, gratitude, and more, leaving the reader inspired and filled with hope.