Writing from the Heart
Guest Post by Sandra Shaw Homer Sandra was a guest speaker at my Namaste Gardens Writing & Yoga Retreat in Costa Rica I’ve known I wanted to be a writer ever since I wrote a two-page autobiography at the age of nine. This received lavish praise, of course, but what was interesting about it was [...]
Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
Writing “Home First: A Memoir in Voices”
Guest Post by Susan Siddeley I love writing: fashioning sentences, crafting a tale, getting feedback. A nightmare for me is to be stranded in a queue with no pen or paper, where nothing is moving, yet life suddenly makes sense. Backing sixpenny notebooks with brown paper and scribbling about blackbirds, bluebells, and earwigs when I [...]
Friday, November 4th, 2011
“The Boy in the Moon”: Love Letter to a Son, Voice for the Disabled
Guest Post by Mary E. McIntyre Twenty-one years ago, my brother and his wife had twin sons with cerebral palsy. The son who was more severely affected died at 17 years, of complications from his disability. The remaining twin is wheelchair bound, unable to look after his physical needs. Though he can talk slowly and [...]
Thursday, October 20th, 2011
Writing in My Father’s Voice: Honouring His Wartime Experience (Part 2 of 2)
Guest Post by Barbara Trendos My idea of writing a mock journal turned out to be not so far beyond the realm of possibility. The Canadian YMCA had distributed log books, like the one Johnny kept, to help Canadian PoWs fill time, cope, and record the day-to-day routine of an utterly un-routine life experience. Dad [...]
Saturday, May 28th, 2011
Writing in My Father’s Voice: Honouring His Wartime Experience (Part 1 of 2)
Guest Post by Barbara Trendos It was one night over thirty years ago when Dad first brought out that plain, beat-up file folder. Although I can’t recall what prompted him to do so, I clearly remember sitting on the shag carpet at the foot of his easy chair in front of the fireplace in our family [...]
Wednesday, May 25th, 2011
Memoir Writing: The Muse and the Music
by Ann C. Walker, Guest Blogger I had known since spring of this year that the 100th anniversary of the founding of my high school band was coming up. Information and registration forms were sent months in advance, from Wisconsin, USA, to my home in Santiago, Chile, asking me, as a former band member, to [...]
Thursday, December 2nd, 2010
