The repression inherent to any kind of authoritarianism shapes our lives even when we don’t want to. I know because I was born and raised under a dictatorship....
I was scared of what my husband would feel when he read my memoir, but it sparked deep conversations about my past and our relationship....
Agony and delight: Life is made of contrasts. Contrasts that live beside and inside each other and refuse to get neatly digested....
I love memoirs because lifting the veil of a person's facade to find the true and often uncomfortable story of their life adds poignancy to a narrative. Here are four memoirs worth reading....
Writing comes with a hefty side of frustration. Rejections, shaky path to publication, self-doubt...
I believe Mom and I had so much conflict because we were so alike. Just as I inherited some of her flaws, I embodied some of her best qualities....
Therapy helps us become our better selves. A book by Nicola Mendenhall speaks about her experience with 10 years on Freudian psychoanalysis....
We crave perfection, and being seen as good, but none of us is always good or does everything perfectly....
Memory is tricky. That’s why fact checking is so important when you write memoir....
Our naked bodies carry an essential purity that more often than not has been beaten out of us by prejudice, criticism, and self-hate....
