Category: Women Writing Memoirs
My Magical Year of Reading and How it Led to Writing a Book
From October 2008 through October 2009, I read a book a day. My memoir about this year of reading – and a lifetime of reading — is entitled Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading.“Tolstoy” because I read his last novel during my year of reading; “Purple Chair” because I did a lot […]
Memoir as Soul Work
All art is expression. All expression is a way of putting it “out there.” As soon as we put it out there it’s no longer insideus, or merely inside us. It has been expressed outwardly. So we can now hear it, feel it, see it, touch it – outside of us. And so we get to know […]
Mary McDonough Publishes Lessons from the Mountain
One of The Walton’s cast, Mary McDonough, has just published a book called Lessons from the Mountain, What I Learned from Erin Walton. Read this book summary from Mary’s website. You can watch this video interview of Mary McDonough on YouTube. Mary describes how she discovered that she had Lupus and became an activist to […]
Memoirs: Obsessive or Progressive
There’s a surge of memoirs. The cynics speak of how self-preoccupied we are. How even people with nothing to say are writing books. The optimists speak of how books are now accessible to all. Everyone has a chance to tell their story. And recognize the insight and understanding that comes from writing a book. The […]
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