Martha’s breast cancer diary was published as My Eye Fell Into the Soup and is a cancer journal/memoir of Martha Blowen’s experience with cancer.
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ASF-Thank-you
Thank you for your review of A Sugary Frosting / A Memoir of a Girlhood Spent in a Parsonage. Here are the different forms of the finished book to download. If you live in the US and would like a hardcopy, please email: [email protected] For Kindle (mobi): Click here. As a PDF: Click here. […]
We Move to Athol
While I believe my father did well as minister in Hadwin Park, he was by nature a small-town minister. Coming from the working class, he was familiar and comfortable with working men and women. Or, I might say, he was comfortable being the educated man among uneducated people. His talent was working in a small, […]
Is a Life Ever Too Ordinary for a Memoir?
Isolated memories that seem too ordinary for a memoir can be a challenge to incorporate into a memoir as they usually lack inherent drama. How to place early memories into a narrative so that they give a sense of the foundation of a life without turning the reader off. Let me know in the comments […]
My Uncles Rescue My Grandparents
My uncles came into the parsonage, made their announcement of the decision to remove my grandparents which was a fait accompli that they were not willing to discuss, packed my grandparents up and drove away with them. My parents were in shock.
My Mother Chooses Between Me and My Grandparents
This is an excerpt from the as-yet-unnamed memoir of Martha Blowen, my lifemate and business partner who died in 2008 of metastatic intraductal breast cancer. The previous post covered Martha’s premature birth and her family’s recent move to Worcester, Massachusetts, where her father had taken on to serve as minister of Congregational church there.
Coming Into This World
When you are both a story teller and a story keeper, in thirty-one years of co-habiting with someone who is very verbal, you get to learn many of her stories. A number of them you have heard not only because they are told directly to you as you went about your day—perhaps driving into town […]
Becoming a Memoir Professional – Be Very Adept at the Memoir Genre
To create a successful business of helping people to write their memoir, you must be familiar with the memoir genre itself.