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
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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
Writing Memoir. News You Can Use: May 31, 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 elicit some form of short memoir – an op-ed, or personal essay – from … [Read more...] about Writing Memoir. News You Can Use: May 31, 2012
Writing Memoir. News You Can Use: May 12, 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 elicit some form of short memoir – an op-ed, or personal essay – from … [Read more...] about Writing Memoir. News You Can Use: May 12, 2012
Writing Memoir that is Stranger Than Fiction? So What?
STRANGER THAN FICTION? I hear this phrase all the time in questions from students about how to write a family truth that is far more bizarre than anyone would believe. I disagree on the not-believing … [Read more...] about Writing Memoir that is Stranger Than Fiction? So What?
