Today, I’m hosting Antoinette Truglio Martin and her touching memoir, Hug Everyone You Know: A Year of Community, Courage, and Cancer. Below the book review and summary is Martin’s article, “Five Journaling Tips When Going Through a Difficult Trial.” WHAT DO YOU DO when your doctor informs you that your […]
I AM EXCEPTIONALLY PLEASED to bring you Lisa Turner’s story of how her outstanding memoir, Dream Take Flight: An Unconventional Journey, came to be. Dream Take Flight is the story of a woman who, since the time she was very young, has had dreams (not just wish-dreams, but nighttime sleep […]
FIRST IMPRESSIONS – *This Boy’s Life, by Tobias Wolff This Boy’s Life, published in 2007, is already a classic among coming-of-age memoirs. It begins with Toby, age fourteen, and his mother as they run West to hide from an abusive relationship and make their fortune prospecting for uranium. “She was going […]
A CLOSE READING of any book helps us to understand how an author’s word choice and sentence structure affect the tone and pace of the work. For this examination of Beryl Markham’s *West With the Night, I decided, (rather arbitrarily) to use excerpts from Chapter V, “He Was a Good […]
FIRST IMPRESSIONS – *West With the Night, by Beryl Markham Though this memoir is considered a classic, I had never heard of it or of Beryl Markham before a Writing Through Life survey respondent suggested it. I was immediately intrigued by the idea of a woman who, raised in Kenya during […]
Writing to Save Your Life: How to Honor Your Story Through Journaling, by Michele Weldon (Hazelden 2001), is a wonderful introduction to journal writing as a healing, creative form of therapy and storytelling. The author coins the term “scribotherapy” to describe “the process of using words as a conduit to […]
