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Listening to Grief: The Boys Laugh Again

Edwina Jangarathis — Thu, 16 Jun 2022 11:00:00 +0000

Eyes squeezed tightly shut, I listen for the laughter of my two grandsons as I drift on my rubber raft. I’m certain if I’m silent and try hard enough I’ll hear the laughter of the boys again. Glimpses of summer days when we laughed together flash through my mind. One day, we linked our three […]

Cindy Doucette’s Memoir Has A Powerful Impact.

Anonymous — Thu, 08 Oct 2020 10:28:00 +0000

Cindy Doucette (Berwick Maine) has seen her poignant story depicted in It Can Happen To Any Family used by the juvenile correctional system of York County, Maine, to effect turn arounds in young people. Below is a testimonial written by a young person who was in the correctional system and who is testifying to the […]

Drug Addiction: An Excerpt From It Can Happen In Any Family

Cindy Doucette — Thu, 22 Aug 2019 10:00:25 +0000

The shock I had first experienced at hearing of Candice’s death had given way to overwhelming sadness. I had lost my daughter, my daughter in whom I had placed so many hopes when she was a baby and a little girl. (more…)

From A Blind Date to A Matchless Marriage

Wally Linder — Sun, 18 Aug 2019 10:06:58 +0000

Editor: The following is an excerpt from Walter Linder’s labor union memoir, A Life of Labor and Love / A Red Memoir. When I reached my early twenties, I was convinced I was too shy to ever get married. Although I had gone out on dates with various women, nothing had clicked. At 24, I […]

How to Write a Successful Memoir: Digging for Treasure

Jean Crichton — Sat, 03 Dec 2016 14:12:15 +0000

Today’s successful memoir writer is Jean Crichton. Jean attended the very first national workshop that I organized in 2000. From that time, we developed a strong working relationship via coaching and editing. She was one of those writers who was an absolute pleasure to work with. To read other interviews For the most recent interview with […]

How to Write a Successful Memoir: It Can Happen to Any Family

Cindy Doucette — Wed, 26 Oct 2016 17:00:47 +0000

Today’s writer is Cindy Doucette whose book is It Can Happen to Any Family. On August 22, 2012, we printed a testimonial written by a young person who was in the correctional system and who wrote of the influence Cindy Doucette’s book had on her. Our last interview was with author Peggy Kennedy. If you haven’t read it, click here. Denis […]

How to Write a Successful Memoir: Approaching Neverland

Peggy Kennedy — Thu, 22 Sep 2016 19:58:17 +0000

Denis Ledoux: Can you tell our readers what your successful memoir is about and why you were impelled to write it? What was driving you to spend the time, energy and money to get this book out into the world? Peggy Kennedy: The name of my book is Approaching Neverland, A Memoir of Epic Tragedy […]

An Extraordinary Woman in an Ordinary World

Marguerite Roy — Thu, 12 Dec 2013 21:04:19 +0000

It was inevitable that I should write Aurore: My Franco-American Mother. From early childhood, I enjoyed my mother’s stories, visualizing the scenes as she talked about her family and the past. During my teen years, I thought my mother talked too much, repeating the same stories over and over again. Whenever she was on the […]

Applying Denis Ledoux’s Motivation Technique

Justine Kuntz — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 13:03:06 +0000

Using a Motivation Technique The Memoir Network was pleased to receive this answer from blog reader Justine Kuntz in response to Denis Ledoux’s article titled “Motivation Technique for Writing:” In the spring of 2012 I decided to do what you have suggested in your entry titled “Motivation Technique for Writing.” I had concluded a memoir […]

Outing to the Mine Office

Jean Crichton — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 14:46:21 +0000

An excerpt from Digging for Treasure, Two Pioneer Coal Developers in Portage, Pennsylvania by Jean Crichton My sharpest memories of Portage, Pennsylvania, date from certain Sundays before my father’s death in 1952 (when I was 8). After church and Sunday dinner at our suburban home in Westmont, outside of Johnstown, Father would suggest “a drive […]