Writing Your Story, Looking from Down to Up
I know a spunky, upbeat woman named Katie Banister. She is a woman of achievement, a dynamic speaker, an inspiration. She happens to be disabled, or rather “dis-abled,” as she prefers to call it,...
View ArticleRemembering Martin Luther King Jr
Well worth remembering, again and again: View Text of “I Have a Dream” Linda Austin “Cherry Blossoms in Twilight” http://www.moonbridgebooks.com
View ArticleMother’s Day mother memoirs and stories
Sharon Lippincott’s latest post on The Heart and Craft of Life Writing blog, links to a list of Flavorwire’s 10 best mother memoirs. Sadly (to me), almost none of them are about women who were good...
View ArticleLoss of a loved one, finding poetry in caregiving
It is over. It is ironic that I wrote about my recent first experience with Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) for my last blog post. I love the meaning behind this Mexican holiday of honoring those...
View ArticleEighteen Months to Live by Rachele Baker – the gift of a journal
Journal entries are not memoir. At least, not usually. Rachele Baker, however, took her mother’s end-of-life journal and turned it word-for-word into a book, with just a few notes of explanation here...
View ArticleCanton Elegy: Astonishing memoir of Chinese history and a father’s love
Recently I finished reading an advance copy of Canton Elegy by Stephen Jin Nom Lee. It is one of the most beautiful memoirs I’ve ever read, and I’ve read a LOT of memoirs. I wrote about Canton Elegy in...
View ArticleSeasons of Our Lives: Women’s Memoirs
“Each woman is a story waiting to be told,” says Susan Wittig Albert, author of Writing from Life and founder of Story Circle Network, an organization that teaches and encourages women to write and...
View ArticleA memoir of overcoming: Gwen Plano and Letting Go into Perfect Love
Today I am pleased to feature Gwendolyn Plano, author of the memoir Letting Go into Perfect Love: Discovering the Extraordinary After Abuse. Plenty of people have written memoirs about surviving and...
View ArticleDealing with family while writing your memoir
“Now it was time to stop the dance I had started . . .” For several years, Kathy Pooler has been sharing her memoir writing experiences on the Memoir Writer’s Journey blog. She is now celebrating the...
View Article“Stories lessen the distance between us”
That’s what our church’s youth leader said this morning during his testimony about his time as a Marine in Iraq and how we can learn that others that seem so different are so much alike. During January...
View ArticleWorld Alzheimer’s Month: writing memoir to help others
During September, World Alzheimer’s Month, I read Barbra Cohn’s memoir/self-help book, Calmer Waters: The Caregiver’s Journey Through Alzheimer’s and Dementia. Barbra cared for her husband who had...
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