I HAD THE PEANUT BUTTER. The large-mouth jar of chunky. I had the spoon. The soup spoon, to be specific, the logic being the more peanut butter at once, the better. I had chosen well from Netflix and … [Read more...] about Memoir Writing: The Empty Nest
Marriage Memoir: Going to the Dogs
MY HUSBAND WAS CLOSE ENOUGH that I could hear him turning the pages of his newspaper. I was straightening up before leaving on a quick trip. What happened next probably could have been prevented, but … [Read more...] about Marriage Memoir: Going to the Dogs
Ideas for Memoir Topics: Read it in the Want Ads
THE FINE PRINT is where you’ll find great creative inspiration. I mean, have you looked in the want ads lately? If not, you should. It is there that I get a lot of my ideas for memoir topics. … [Read more...] about Ideas for Memoir Topics: Read it in the Want Ads
Dogs: A Love Story
SOME YEARS AGO I met a man who had never lived with a dog. Neither had his father nor his father before him. So I married the man and set about to change all that. … [Read more...] about Dogs: A Love Story
Cooking Up a Dog Tale
THERE ARE SOME phrases we hope never to utter. We all have them, and since they are unutterable I won’t list them, nope, except this one, which I can now say aloud, head raised, even making eye … [Read more...] about Cooking Up a Dog Tale