September 1, 2012
MY MOTHER HAD a few rules for living, one or two of which I still call into play on a daily basis. Others are...
August 30, 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...
August 29, 2012
PLEASE JOIN ME for a free, 90-minute Memoirama. It will take place on September 5, 2012, at WMHT Educational Telecommunications, as part of a...
August 24, 2012
I’M SOMETIMES TOO NICE about all this. A great defender of memoir, I used to neglect to tell you just which books make me...
August 23, 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...
July 22, 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...
July 19, 2012
REST YOUR YANG. Written on a piece of paper, that phrase was meant as a prescription when it was handed over by my dear...
June 17, 2012
FAMILIES, LIKE NATIONS, have their own languages. We talk, we colloquialize ourselves into clans whose simplest intimacies are nicknames and dog names and things...
May 31, 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...
May 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...
May 6, 2012
STRANGER THAN FICTION? I hear this phrase all the time in questions from students about how to write a family truth that is far...
May 2, 2012
THE POWER OF MEMOIR is one of my favorite topics. I recently heard this one-minute radio essay that brilliantly argues about the positive aspects...
