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Hot Flash Memoir: Family Photo Album

Jane Hertenstein — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 10:00:00 +0000

This is how I learned about hot flash memoir. As I was cleaning out my parent’s house I made all kinds of discoveries. Like most kids (I’m referring to myself here), I never once thought of my parents as people. They were Mom and Dad. What they did before me really never entered my mind. […]

Mining Memoir Depths: Spelunking of the Mind

Marilea Rabasa — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 15:30:00 +0000

I enjoy many forms of physical exercise, from climbing mountains, to backpacking along trails, to bicycling, and even swimming. But mostly nowadays I just go hiking, sometimes with my grandchildren and partner, but often alone. Working the muscles of my body is good for me and helps keep my joints working. I feel better after […]

Working in Saudi Arabia

Colin Guest — Thu, 23 Jul 2020 11:00:00 +0000

DL: The following is a guest post by a write who co-incidently bears the family name of Guest—Colin Guest. It presents his first days working in Saudi Arabia. The excerpt is form Follow in the Tigerman’s Footsteps / The Memoirs of a Serial Expat. On my arrival at Jeddah Airport, now called the King Abdulaziz […]

Writing During An Illness

Kathleen Pooler — Thu, 15 Jun 2017 10:00:34 +0000

“Writing is a way of processing our lives. And it can be a way of healing.”~ Jan Karon Most writers write because not writing creates distress. I speak for myself when I say, if I don’t get my quota of writing in during the day, I am up half the night, unable to sleep for […]

How Writing to Ease Pain—Even of a Son’s Murder

Kathleen Kline — Tue, 13 Dec 2016 11:13:46 +0000

Even before I found out my son had been murdered, I began writing about what I was experiencing as we waited for word of what had happened. (more…)

Writing My Memoir: Zero to Seventeen

Sharmay Rose Leudtke — Thu, 19 May 2016 11:00:22 +0000

Writing My Memoir: Zero to Seventeen / Life Lessons in Story Writing My Memoir: Zero to Seventeen / Life Lessons in Story I took my concern about leaving a legacy of my grandchildren’s stories and wrote a book. My three grandchildren and I had collected a memory list based on completing the sentence “Do you […]

Memoir Leads to Exploring the Past

Martha Graham-Waldon — Fri, 20 Nov 2015 14:30:13 +0000

Writing a memoir is like opening a window into your life. It can also help clear the fog on windows of the past. Writing my own story in my memoir Nothing Like Normal (to be published by Black Opal Press November 14) caused me to wonder about the tales of my parents and ancestors and […]

Raising My Family Around the World ~ The Adventures of a CIA Wife and Mom

Lin Joyce — Wed, 14 Oct 2015 10:49:49 +0000

I have been married to a man who worked for the CIA for thirty-two years and we spent many years living outside of the USA. I tell my story from the context of being a wife and mother making all those moves — 18 in 21 years. (more…)

The Irreplaceable Memoir

John Adams — Wed, 23 Sep 2015 14:34:06 +0000

People are driven to express themselves. Each of us has a story and an urge to tell it. No other style is as effective as the irreplaceable memoir. (more…)

Hemingway and Dinosaurs

Ingrid Littman-Tai — Fri, 26 Jul 2013 13:48:57 +0000

My pulse quickened as we walked up the white cement stairs to Ernest Hemingway’s famed Cuban home, La Finca Vigia. His presence lingered throughout the house. (more…)