October 26, 2011
MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED MILLION Americans are tracing their roots, and while genealogy is a fast-growing American pursuit, many people begin their search with little...
October 21, 2011
A SISTER-FRIEND FROM my memoir class, writer and yoga instructor Joely Johnson Mork, once made a list that I have written about, given talks...
October 17, 2011
A RECENT ONLINE MEMOIR CLASS class began much like every online memoir class I’ve taught. No one had agreed to this beforehand. No one...
October 1, 2011
IT IS OCTOBER, the harvest, that great time for taking stock. Me? I’m grateful for many things, particularly the friendship and love of Margaret,...
September 28, 2011
Does it seem to you like there are more memoirs out there than ever? It does to me, and while this month I really...
September 21, 2011
WRITING AS REVENGE is always a bad idea, and as much as I’ve said it, and genuinely believe it, it’s lovely to find someone...
September 13, 2011
I love readings. In fact, I love them so much that I am curating one in December, 2011, as part of a year-long project...
September 7, 2011
READY, SET, WRITE! That’s how most people think writing memoir will go, whether it be in blog form, a series of essays, or a...
September 6, 2011
I am so very excited to invite you to come join the just-launched memoir workshop I’m doing on the fabulous — as well as...
August 3, 2011
I LIVE ON A GRID. I call it “The Grid.” It’s a character in our lives to some extent, and everyone who knows it...
July 31, 2011
HOW TRUE DO we need to be when we write memoir? That question elicits no small amount of howling when it is asked and...
July 20, 2011
PEOPLE ALWAYS ASK me what to do with a piece of memoir once it’s written. Should all memoir be published? Not all personal stories...
