Author Archive: Dede Montgomery

An event at Midlife: Crisis, Challenge, Breakthrough, or Opportunity?
When I was 26 years old, my 54-year-old mom received her doctorate. She had divorced my dad a few years prior, moved from Portland, Oregon to San Francisco, and enrolled in a Ph.D. program that seemed crazy to some of her friends: women who, like her, had married in the 50’s, living life as they […]

Using What We Know To Imagine What Might Have Been
Using what we know to imagine what might have been: Weaving technical expertise into creative writing Had you asked me five years ago if I would ever write a memoir, I might have answered “maybe.” If the query had been about writing a novel? Never! My brain, schooled and journeyed through decades of a profession […]
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