This is the third of three posts on the theme Roots and Wings. Memories of home, leaving or finding it, and of travel or journeys for the October Memoir and Backstory Challenge hosted by Jane Ann McLachlan. My first two were: Family Vacations — October … Continue reading →
This week’s theme for the October Memoir and Backstory Challenge hosted by Jane Ann McLachlan is Roots and Wings. Memories of home, leaving or finding it, and of travel or journeys. As I mentioned in my previous post, Family Vacations — October Memoir Challenge, my … Continue reading →
The October Memoir and Backstory Challenge hosted by Jane Ann McLachlan has a new theme for the coming week: Roots and Wings. Memories of home, leaving or finding it, and of travel or journeys. My parents gave us “roots” by visiting my grandparents’ … Continue reading →
I had to turn The Perfume Collector into the library last week so I included it in a group post: 5 Quick Book Reviews. But I wanted to make sure that the Dreaming of France and Books on France folks know about this … Continue reading →
This week’s theme for the October Memoir and Backstory Challenge hosted by Jane Ann McLachlan is Secrets. So far, I wrote about secrets that I’m not revealing: Not My Secret — October Memoir Challenge about secrets that aren’t mine to tell Secretive Art … Continue reading →
This week’s theme for the October Memoir and Backstory Challenge hosted by Jane Ann McLachlan is Secrets. As I wrote in my first post, authentic writing requires honesty, but not all secrets need to be revealed. A category of secrets that I keep … Continue reading →
The theme for the next three posts in the October Memoir and Backstory Challenge hosted by Jane Ann McLachlan is Secrets. I fretted a bit about this theme, but I finally landed on a solution. For the first two posts, I’m going … Continue reading →
Capricious Reader is hosting a Spine Poetry Mini-Challenge for Dewey’s Read-a-Thon. I made up one for the writers among us: 45 Master Characters Relish Plot and Structure Here it is in photographic form:
Continue reading →For this week’s October Memoir and Backstory Challenge theme of Relationships, I’m comparing my life with my mother’s life at the same ages. I’ve visited two ages so far: Mother and Me, Age 6 — October Memoir Challenge Mother and Me, Age … Continue reading →
For this week’s October Memoir and Backstory Challenge theme of Relationships, I’m comparing my life with my mother’s life at the same ages. On Monday, I looked at age 6 when my mother had rheumatic fever and I moved from Utah … Continue reading →