memoir
August 27, 2009
- Hello. Welcome to my new site. Please have fun with me as I learn how to navigate and work this thing. I am limited on computer knowledge and it’s hard to teach an old dog new tricks. My newly published book Beside Myself, a memoir about growing up on a cotton farm in central Texas, is filled with humor and laced with a serious look at the conflict of growing up as a tomboy, trying not to ...
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August 23, 2009
- Pitching a memoir is a brazen act of self-indulgence, the ultimate surrender to the almighty ego, and an embarrassing admission that, yes, ladies and gentlemen, I do think the world revolves around me. But I could no longer resist the temptation to consider one after my last trip to Eskaton Lodge at Gold River, which offers assisted living and memory care to about a hundred seniors in the suburbs ...
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August 21, 2009
- I was 5 when this snapshot of my mother was taken. That was just 69 years ago. We lived in a white cottage just off the beach.You had to feed coins into the stove to make it work. That was a drag on our livelihood because my mother made "Mrs. Horner's famous Key Lime Pies" to help with the finances.This was Florida. My father, who I think took this picture, was still ...
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August 20, 2009
- A Joyful Encounter: My Mother, My Alzheimer Clients, and Me, A Memoir by Lynn Scott The Story Woman Book Review Well, what can I say? I am overwhelmed with feelings after reading Lynn Scott’s, A Joyful Encounter, My Mother, My Alzheimer Clients, and Me. Her memoir brought up passion and emotion in me about my Alzheimer’s afflicted mother on so many levels that I know will ...
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August 18, 2009
- I received a post card from Auschwitz the other day, saying: "Wish you were here." From a friend with a 'certain' sense of humour. Yes, I know we chose our friends as opposed to our families, but I probably would have done the same. Irreverent humour is but one response to that which is beyond response.As it is, the incident took me back to my university days, when I worked on a farm ...
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August 17, 2009
- I’m excited to announce that Lynne Van Luven, with whom I edited Nobody's Father: Life Without Kids, and I are embarking on a new book project, the call for which I’ve pasted below. We’d love your help in disseminating it as widely as possible to anyone you think might be interested. Call for Submissions–Adoption Essays Have you spent years wondering what caused your birth parents to ...
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August 12, 2009
- “I’ve learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they’re gone from your life.” — Maya AngelouI visit my dad twice a year. On this particular early May morning the sky is cloudless, the air crisp; the grass is bejeweled with dew. Leaning against the side of my truck, I clip the end of an Onyx Vintage ‘97 and light it, taking a long, ...
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August 4, 2009
- So I almost fell off my chair when my HarperCollins ed. forwarded this amazing review from Booklist, the magazine of the American Library Association:Rock 'n' Roll Soldier.Kohler, Dean Ellis (Author)Sep 2009. 288 p. HarperTeen, hardcover, $16.99. (9780061242557). 959.704.The war memoir gets a unique spin with Kohler’s recollection of his time playing rock and roll in the Vietnam jungle. The ...
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August 2, 2009
- Grove Press, the independent publishers of Kiran Desai’s Booker Prize-winning novel The Inheritance of Loss and bestsellers Man Gone Down and Peace Like A River, will publish Willow’s memoir The Butterfly Mosque in Spring 2010. Stay tuned for details!
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July 29, 2009
- Joyce Maynard has a big mouth. It’s either that, or she has too much integrity to lie about anything, despite the fact that telling the truth often gets her into trouble.When you hear our podcast interview, you decide which it is.I first met Joyce Maynard when I signed up for one of her writing critique classes which she conducts here in the Bay Area of California. I’d written my first ...
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