December 28, 2011
BE HOSPITABLE. I have only one maxim in my office—a little index card that reads, “Be hospitable”— and it has been there through four...
December 27, 2011
MEMOIR WRITING RESOLUTIONS need to be made and kept. Let’s make some, so that you meet your memoir writing goals. I think of these...
December 26, 2011
A LITTLE BIT of memoir goes a long way, particularly if you are considering writing an opinion piece. In this case, along with a...
December 23, 2011
NEWS YOU CAN USE. That’s what was pointed out to me this week in one of my classes – the idea that few memoir...
December 22, 2011
EVERY TIME THE holidays come around I am reminded that one of these days I simply have to do something with my mother’s ashes....
December 20, 2011
ARE WE LIARS, all of those of us who create things? Maybe, maybe not. But what do you do when you find a study,...
December 17, 2011
LIFE’S BIG REALIZATIONS happen in life’s small moments. And it is here that parenting memoir is born. I’ve said it before, I’m saying it...
December 16, 2011
LIKE MOST PARENTS of a teen, I worry about our daughter’s future romantic relationships. So far, she’s done quite well. Her first love who...
December 15, 2011
MARGARET WAS EEYORE when we were young, seeing the impossible in everything. My older sister, she has grown up to be Kanga, her youthful...
December 15, 2011
WHAT AN HONOR. I am delighted to see The Memoir Project, my irreverent little book on how to write memoir, listed at the number...
December 9, 2011
HERE’S A LIST of phrases. I love lists, particularly memoir lists, and this one came to me at about 4 AM, right after I...
December 7, 2011
MEMOIR IS EVERYWHERE. Are you considering writing some? Maybe I can help. My theory (pilfered from the great Flannery O’Connor) is that anyone who...
