You might want to pick one of these objects and write about it.
The other night I read my husband a piece by Daniel Jones, the NY Times Modern Love editor.
We had a good laugh and then my guy said: “Are you telling me to shave my head?”
“Well, no,” I said. “I just like the essay.”
Yesterday he shaved his head. “I’m tired of seeing that U-shape of white hair,” he said. “What do you think?”
I hesitated.
“Uh, you don’t like it. That pause said everything.”
I shrugged. “It’s okay, really. I like it.”
When I met him, all those years ago, he had amazing curly thick hair–brown with natural blond highlights and traces of gray around the temples.
What we did to try to save that hair–the sticky ointments, massages, careful cuts.
I'm happy to be part of this collection of personal stories, a collaboration involving over 60 teachers of memoir from around the world. The book is published independently by the Birren Center for Autobiographical Writing, through which the authors are certified to teach.
A unique and beautiful exploration of Helen Keller's abiding friendship with prominent journalist Ed Chamberlin–and much more about Keller's struggles, passions, and values. The author is Chamberiin's great-great-granddaughter.
On August 8, 2020, in pandemic heat, I introduced Kristen Rademacher (via Zoom)at the launch party for From the Lake
House, A Mother’s Odyssey of Loss and Love, her wrenching memoir. Flyleaf Books, our hopping indie bookstore here in Chapel Hill, NC, hosted the event. A large crowd from across the country and around the world tuned in for the inspiring multi-media event.
This poignant memoir gives a boy's view of life in Nazi-held Prague and his escape to freedom in a challenging America.
An award winning collection of powerful stories about serving the many needs of elderly and indigent patients, as one of America's first gerontological nurse practitioners.
Essays by women ministers about their challenges and victories in answering the call to ministry.
A mother's 40-year struggle to raise an autistic son – and to grow up herself.
This idyllic memoir recollects the sweet and simple summer pleasures of family life in mid-century Cape Cod.
If you love your pets and make sacrifices for them, you will adore this lively book about a family's needy cats.
The history of a women's shelter in Birmingham, Alabama, as told through many voices.
William Buffett's short essays on nearly everything, arranged as an alphabet book.
Essays about one man's dimensional life including some of his favorite recipes.
