February 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...
February 10, 2012
TALKING TO JEFF GOINS, the word “comfortable” frequently comes up. He uses it, and I’m feeling a distinct sense of comfort as we breeze...
February 6, 2012
THE CHINESE CONSIDER the owl to be a cateagle: Part cat, part eagle, it is a bird believed to possess vast and enviable qualities....
February 5, 2012
FEW THINGS BEAT a great conversation. But a great conversation about both writing and knitting, well, that beats all. And that is just what...
February 5, 2012
CAN THERE BE two sides to the same story? Of course. That’s both a hallmark of families, as well as of memoir. What to...
February 4, 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...
February 3, 2012
WEDNESDAY NIGHT’S CLASS is only one of three classes I’ll teach this week, but I already know that it’s one that will stay with...
February 2, 2012
OF THE WRETCHED MISTAKES I made when first teaching, perhaps my favorite occurred over what is known as the cosmic graph. And because there...
February 1, 2012
YOUR BLOG AWAITS. You write about your life. In other words, you write what you know. But right now you feel like you don’t...
January 31, 2012
ALL MEMOIR NEEDS AN ARGUMENT. Want to argue about it? Just kidding, of course, though accepting that even all memoir needs an argument from...
January 30, 2012
YOUR NEWS PEG is where you hang your hat, and when it comes to writing short memoir, answering the reader’s subconscious question of why...
January 29, 2012
LISTS ARE THE NEW BACON. Or the new black. Or the new fill-in-the-blank however you like. I write them, I read them, I encourage...
