Q&A with Fast Horse
I was honored to be featured in a blog Q&A with Adam Wahlberg of Fast Horse, a creative agency based …
Tag Archives: memoir
Review of Melissa Faliveno’s debut essay collection, “Tomboyland”
I’m often mistaken for a vegetarian. I don’t know why. Perhaps it’s my tattoos. Or my hair color—a shock of …
If you’re bored in Mankato, you’re doing something wrong
The past couple of weeks have been a cultural whirlwind in this rural Minnesota outpost we call Mankato. Lest you …
My favorite things: July 21 edition
I’m resurrecting my “favorite things” series that I had started a couple of years ago. There’s just too much great …
What goes into the do-it-yourself retreat
Getaways are great, right? I love hopping on a plane to go to a writing conference or yoga workshop. There’s …
The big “O”: Organizing your memoir
So you’ve written a ton of stuff for your memoir. You have oodles and oodles of words. You’ve been writing …
4 characteristics that define memoir
I have a lot of writing-guide books, all with numerous definitions of memoir. I’m just going to work from off …
A story revealed through census records
Ancestry let me know the other day that I had some documents to review and add to my tree. A …
The next wave of memoir
Photo Credit: Bosc d’Anjou Flickr via Compfight cc In all the years I’ve taught memoir at The Loft, at times …
Generating ideas for memoir
Photo Credit: MarkGregory007 Flickr via Compfight cc I’m teaching a generative memoir workshop at The Loft Literary Center on Saturday …
