I still remember the beautiful sunny Friday, September 11, 1987, peeling carrots in the kitchen for my husband’s 40th birthday party. The baby wasn’t due for three weeks, but he had other ideas. As John returned home from the hospital, where he had just undergone chemotherapy treatment for his cancer, I said, “I’m sorry, butContinue reading “Memoir Writing: Embracing Life’s Pivotal Moments”
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Healing Through Memoir: The Power of Writing
For many memoirists, writing is a heavy yet healing journey. They are willing to look back, for they know that the unexamined life isn’t worth living. They understand that pain, hardship, and loss often come with something else: the realization that their story is now one they can live with and fully embrace. Hopefully, theContinue reading “Healing Through Memoir: The Power of Writing”
Writing and Self-Compassion
When a book club hosted me last week after selecting Again in a Heartbeat as their monthly read, I repeated, as I have many times over the years, that writing the book helped me forgive myself.
Writing Life with Possibility
The writing life is alive with possibility, discovery, and reflection on a new morning.
Writing to Pick Up the Pieces
Following Covid, a lot of us felt as if we were languishing. Finding it hard to pick up the pieces. A man I barely know confessed as much to me the other day. “I don’t know where to go from here,” he said. He hoped to restart his business, but time would tell. That’s probablyContinue reading “Writing to Pick Up the Pieces”
