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Old Friend from Far Away, with Natalie Goldberg

On Memoir, with Jennifer Lauck (author of Blackbird, Still Waters, and Show Me the Way)

Randy Pausch: Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams

Randy Pausch’s lecture is the famous one that inspired the best-selling book The Last Lecture. It’s well worth watching, but set aside some time — make yourself a cup of tea or coffee — as it’s just over an hour and 15 minutes.

Six-Word Memoirs: The Book, by SmithMag

Six-Word Memoirs: The Video Story, by SmithMag

Words, by Everynone

Fun with Words

Free Rice (my favourite online vocabulary game, and it’s for a good cause!)

“When I turned in an early draft of this essay, my agent . . . asked, 'Where are all those fun details?' She reminded me of how I had told her the story. . . . I resisted making edits at first; I didn't want to write about my personal observations. But as I ruminated, the essay took on a kind of shape in my mind, rounded out by the details I'd suppressed.”– Marie Mutsuki Mockett, of "Letter from a Japanese Crematorium"