April 7, 2012
PASSOVER IS HERE, and we look forward to our yearly Seder, blended as we will be into another family’s gracious celebration. It’s easier these...
April 4, 2012
MY FATHER USED TO SAY that you should write everything like a letter home. In a letter home you rarely tell those people who...
April 2, 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...
March 25, 2012
I DON’T USUALLY require the students in my memoir class read anything in particular, including my own book on how to write memoir. But...
March 23, 2012
THIS WEEK’S CLASS was the first in a new six-week series. I particularly love these first nights, since it brings the challenge back to...
March 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...
March 21, 2012
“TRUST, BUT VERIFY.” Reading those words, I simply smiled from earring to earring. Such good advice. Such good advice for writers of memoir, whose...
March 16, 2012
I’VE NEVER BEFORE TOLD A PIECE of memoir without notes, or not reading from a manuscript. At least not in public. Of course, I’ve...
March 14, 2012
My dictionary defines hell as “any place or state of torment or misery.” Well, then, I’ve been to hell on earth and it’s other...
March 12, 2012
NO DOUBT ABOUT IT: Good parenting requires a healthy respect for forgetfulness and a working knowledge of when to use it. Women who give...
March 11, 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...
March 8, 2012
THE RADIO IS my favorite medium, and so it is truly a thrill to tell you that I’ll be on the wonderful PRI show...
