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If you’re bored in Mankato, you’re doing something wrong

October 8, 2019

The past couple of weeks have been a cultural whirlwind in this rural Minnesota outpost we call Mankato. Lest you …

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My favorite things: July 21 edition

July 21, 2019

I’m resurrecting my “favorite things” series that I had started a couple of years ago. There’s just too much great …

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What goes into the do-it-yourself retreat

July 16, 2019

Getaways are great, right? I love hopping on a plane to go to a writing conference or yoga workshop. There’s …

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The big “O”: Organizing your memoir

July 12, 2019

So you’ve written a ton of stuff for your memoir. You have oodles and oodles of words. You’ve been writing …

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4 characteristics that define memoir

July 6, 2019

I have a lot of writing-guide books, all with numerous definitions of memoir. I’m just going to work from off …

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A story revealed through census records

December 10, 2018

Ancestry let me know the other day that I had some documents to review and add to my tree. A …

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The next wave of memoir

November 5, 2018

Photo Credit: Bosc d’Anjou Flickr via Compfight cc In all the years I’ve taught memoir at The Loft, at times …

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Generating ideas for memoir

November 2, 2018

Photo Credit: MarkGregory007 Flickr via Compfight cc  I’m teaching a generative memoir workshop at The Loft Literary Center on Saturday …

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The inaugural memoir/yoga workshop

October 7, 2018

Just look at this space. It was perfect for writing and yoga. I spent the weekend of Sept. 28-30 here, …

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Why I write, Part I

September 29, 2018

I saw memoirist extraordinaire Patricia Hampl on Sept. 28 at Drury Lane Books in Grand Marais. How lucky for me …

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