January 5, 2013
NEWS YOU CAN USE. Maybe you saw these stories. Maybe you missed them, but these are among the pieces I’ve read recently that might...
December 14, 2012
NEWS YOU CAN USE. Maybe you saw these stories. Maybe you missed them, but these are among the pieces I’ve read recently that might...
December 12, 2012
QUANTITATIVE EASING. FISCAL CLIFF. Scope creep. These are the words we are using going into the new year. I’ve heard them all recently on...
December 10, 2012
MANY OF MY STUDENTS wrestle with the “what to write” question. They struggle when trying to find a memoir topic. It’s a nearly hand-to-hand...
December 7, 2012
NEWS YOU CAN USE. Maybe you saw these stories. Maybe you missed them, but these are among the pieces I’ve read recently that might...
December 5, 2012
MY NEW FAVORITE memoir has fabulous blurbs by Elizabeth Gilbert, author of the bestselling Eat, Pray, Love and Anna Thomas, author of the bestselling...
December 4, 2012
ON THE FACEBOOK page called The Memoir Project, I gather and post those news items that make our work easier. In the last week...
November 28, 2012
A NEW MEMOIR CLASS began recently. A five-weeker, right from the start its length presented a challenge to how I teach how to write...
November 14, 2012
I WAS ASKED about my writing influences. The question came in the form of a recent interview. This is one of those questions that...
November 12, 2012
NEWS YOU CAN USE. Maybe you saw these stories. Maybe you missed them, but these are among the pieces I’ve read recently that might...
October 25, 2012
MY LITTLE TILLER is out by the trash. Just shy of its 24th year in service, it finally exhausted itself. It cannot be coaxed...
October 24, 2012
NEWS YOU CAN USE. Maybe you saw these stories. Maybe you missed them, but these are among the pieces I’ve read recently that might...
