Memoir Monday: A Poem
I’ve missed a couple of weeks of my memoir group lately and don’t have much to mine from recent writing exercises, so I thought I would share a snippet of a poem I’ve been working on. It’s a contemplation of … Continue reading
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Memoir Mondays: Growing Up Fast
On Monday evenings I meet with a group of friends and we do writing exercises from Natalie Goldberg’s Old Friend from Far Away: The Practice of Writing Memoir. Each Monday, this blog will feature a reworking of one of the … Continue reading
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Tagged appearance, children, dress, earrings, fashion, marketing, memoir, Natalie Goldberg, Old Friend from Far Away, parenting, party, play, role models, writing
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Memoir Mondays: A Good Student
On Monday evenings I meet with a group of friends and we do writing exercises from Natalie Goldberg’s Old Friend from Far Away: The Practice of Writing Memoir. Each Monday, this blog will feature a reworking of one of the … Continue reading
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Tagged beginner's mind, dreams, learner, learning, memoir, Natalie Goldberg, Old Friend from Far Away, student, teacher, writing
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Memoir Mondays: My Children, My Best Teachers
On Monday evenings I meet with a group of friends and we do writing exercises from Natalie Goldberg’s Old Friend from Far Away: The Practice of Writing Memoir. Each Monday, this blog will feature a reworking of one of the … Continue reading
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Tagged children, homemaking, instincts, memoir, Natalie Goldberg, Old Friend from Far Away, parenting, passion, role model, teacher
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Memoir Mondays: Kindergarten
On Monday evenings I meet with a group of friends and we do writing exercises from Natalie Goldberg’s Old Friend from Far Away: How to Write a Memoir. Each Monday, this blog will feature a reworking of one of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Catholic school, cats, childhood, Christmas, cooking, Easter, football, Halloween, Kung Fu Fighting, Massachusetts, memoir, memories, Merrymead farm, Necco wafers, parenting, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Flyers, play, relationships, reminiscing, scarlet fever, school, stories
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Memoir Monday: Passions, Obsessions, and Bold, Reckless Extremes
On Monday evenings I meet with a group of friends and we do writing exercises from Natalie Goldberg’s Old Friend from Far Away: The Practice of Writing Memoir. Each Monday, this blog will feature a reworking of one of the … Continue reading
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Tagged happiness, harm, memoir, Natalie Goldberg, obsession, Old Friend from Far Away, passion, regret, vulnerability
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Memoir Mondays: Looking and Thinking
On Monday evenings I meet with a group of friends and we do writing exercises from Natalie Goldberg’s Old Friend from Far Away: How to Write a Memoir. Each Monday, this blog will feature a reworking of one of the … Continue reading
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Tagged alcohol, bubbles, children, dreams, drinking, family, fountain pen ink, fountain pens, looking, memoir, observation, poetry, thinking, writing, writing exercises
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Memoir Mondays: Coffee
On Monday evenings I meet with a group of friends and we do writing exercises from Natalie Goldberg’s Old Friend from Far Away: The Practice of Writing Memoir. Each Monday, this blog will feature a reworking of one of the writing … Continue reading
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Tagged Caffe Mam, coffee, cream, creamer, food, health, Horizon Organics, memoir, Montana Herb Gathering, sugar, sweeteners
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(Non)Fiction Fridays: Bird Cloud
This post has moved to Renée’s Reads. I’ve been listening to Annie Proulx’s Bird Cloud: A Memoir, on CD (read by the author and Joan Allen). Proulx is the author of the short story which became the movie Brokeback Mountain, which I … Continue reading
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Tagged Annie Proulx, audiobook, Bird Cloud, house, memoir, Richard Manning, Wyoming
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Memoir Mondays: Love and Fear
On Monday evenings I meet with a group of friends and we do writing exercises from Natalie Goldberg’s Old Friend from Far Away: The Practice of Writing Memoir. Each Monday, this blog will feature a reworking of one of the writing … Continue reading
