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Memoir Writer’s Blog Posts
Cell phones: A fine way to avoid intimacy
This post is part of the “Beyond Writing Prompts” series to help you to access memories that may not have made it to your Memory List. Walking through the nearby Bates College campus recently, I walked towards five young women who were heading in the direction of the college dining hall. I could imagine them […]
My Good Mother Organizes a Kindergarten for Me
DL: In this excerpt, Martha demonstrates the ambivalence of her relationship with her mother. On the one hand, she charges her with not being a good mother, and on the other hand, she praises her for her mothering skills. ___ Although I loved being at the house on the hill, I was sometimes lonely for […]
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, […]
Can Life Get Better in the Parsonage?
Life in Worcester for my family was a 1950’s middle-class existence. It is what I believe my father was striving for when he worked those years in Enfield, CT, after high school and before Bates, those years at Bates working at the telephone switchboard at Central Maine General Hospital, serving as kitchen and dining room […]
71 years ago today…
Today would have been my parents’ wedding anniversary. They are both gone now—my mother having passed on May 5th of 2015. I included a eulogy in a previous blog post. Theirs was a 1940s Franco-American wedding. For this post, I am providing you with a link to the blog archives where I have posted many […]
Free books in My Memoir Education area
There are many free books, MP3s, and PDFs in My Memoir Education area for you to enjoy. If you have not been to the downloads section lately, check it out.
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 […]
Stop Trying to Write Your Memoir
Are you a person who is trying to write your memoir or are you a person who is writing it? Your family will likely be left without your memoir if what you do is “try to write a memoir.” This post is full of ideas for going from trying to write to writing.
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.