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
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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
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
