Cultural Writing. Essays. Mary Lou Sanelli's FALLING AWAKE: AN AMERICAN WOMAN GETS A GRIP ON THE WHOLE CHANGING WORLD--ONE ESSAY AT A TIME brings a sharp eye and sophisticated wit not only to the sometimes disheartening, sometimes encouraging aspects of our current politics and culture, but also to issues specific to her home city of Seattle. "Mary Lou Sanelli...offer(s) a sensitive, personal look at life's tug-of-wars like those between age and time,...