Forgiveness is nuanced, and sometimes misleading. You may believe that you forgave someone, but that forgiveness may only be skin-deep....
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....
Books and Films recommendations (December 2020). Get inspired thinking about purpose, aging, creativity and the magic of ordinary lives....
Pilar Hernández was a doctor in Chile, but she was forced to reinvent her life when she moved to the US. She found success in the kitchen....
Writing is like climbing a mountain, as any artistic expression, but we only have one life and one voice. The world needs to hear yours....
Writing memoir well is just as hard, if not harder, as writing fiction. Here are three books about the craft of writing memoir that I have found useful....
Analysis of the structure of a story by David Sedaris, "Laugh, Kookaburra," from the intro, to the three story cores, transitions, musings and conclusion. ...
Discover three enemies of a writer: lack of emotional distance, not protecting your writing time and lack of organization....
Louise de Salvo's book "The Art of Slow Writing" dissects the step-by-step process of creating a book, and taught me to be more patient with my own work....
When I became a mother, I knew from the get-go that I would do whatever it took to make my son fall in love with reading. But it wasn't as easy as I thought....
