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 new partnership I'm establishing. All are welcome. It's … [Read more...] about Join Me for a Free 90-Minute Memoirama
The Memoir Project Blog
New Memoir: Love ‘Ems and Leave ‘Ems
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 want to hurl just as much as they might make you want to hurl. No more. So … [Read more...] about New Memoir: Love ‘Ems and Leave ‘Ems
Writing Memoir: News You Can Use. 8/23/12
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 elicit some form of short memoir – an op-ed, or personal essay – from … [Read more...] about Writing Memoir: News You Can Use. 8/23/12
Writing Memoir: News You Can Use. 7/22/12
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 elicit some form of short memoir – an op-ed, or personal essay – from … [Read more...] about Writing Memoir: News You Can Use. 7/22/12
Summer Vacation? Nope. Resting my Yang.
REST YOUR YANG. Written on a piece of paper, that phrase was meant as a prescription when it was handed over by my dear friend Jeanne. Also a brilliant massage therapist and yoga teacher, she is among … [Read more...] about Summer Vacation? Nope. Resting my Yang.
Writing Memoir: Father’s Day
FAMILIES, LIKE NATIONS, have their own languages. We talk, we colloquialize ourselves into clans whose simplest intimacies are nicknames and dog names and things we shout at an ump. … [Read more...] about Writing Memoir: Father’s Day
