April 7, 2015
I DELIBERATELY LIVE NEAR WHAT I CALL the E-Triangle. It’s my own designation, and not one you’ll find on a map, but one that...
March 26, 2015
AS YOU MAY REMEMBER, I talk to my dog. But that does not prevent me from also talking to cats, as I did last...
March 23, 2015
CREATIVE INSPIRATION COMES at you from every direction. In this time of hyper-media involvement, we can sometimes simply want to duck. But don’t. I...
March 16, 2015
YOU ARE YOUR OWN CAVALRY. That’s the truth. As writers, we must come to our own rescue and show up with the goods. Another...
March 12, 2015
THE BEST MEMOIR WRITING knows its limits. It does not take on too much. It does not take on too little. It takes on...
March 9, 2015
APPARENTLY I AM A DEVELOPMENTAL EDITOR for memoir. I had not know that until recently when four separate email inquiries came in using that...
March 4, 2015
THAT HE WAS BOOED AND SHUNNED; that people brought watermelons to the game; that he fought on. Those are the details I heard on...
March 2, 2015
IS WRITING A MEMOIR the new prelude to running for national office? It seems so, doesn’t it? Or is it that running for national...
February 27, 2015
AS A MEMOIR EDITOR, I read a lot. As a writer, I read a lot. As a thinking human, I read a lot. As...
February 25, 2015
WHEN PEOPLE ASK why I love memoir, I frequently remind them that were it not for my favorite genre, we would not have the...
January 16, 2015
WRITING ABOUT THE TOUGHEST stuff of life will include the kind of struggle you need to prepare for. Simple as that. You will change...
November 30, 2014
ARE THERE SOME PHRASES that should never appear in print? Maybe, maybe not. After all, I’m all for place savers — cliches, song lyrics,...
