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Repurposing
Memories can be as difficult to recover as your grandmother’s doilies packed in the bottom of a tattered cardboard box in your cousin’s attic. They may lie tucked in a dusty corner of your mind, becoming thin and musty with age. But occasionally you’ll stumble across one of those elusive memories. It might be a [...]
Gone Too Soon
Yesterday I came across a Slate.com article by Emily Yoffe in which she shared the story of her husband’s first wife, Robin, who died from breast cancer at age 34. As I was reading, I could hear my 13-year-old granddaughter, also named Robin, playing a video game in her bedroom. My granddaughter was named after [...]
The Fool
My brother Mark, too young to fully understand what was happening, rocked back and forth on his wooden booster chair, his dark eyes flashing between his brother and me. John, just a year older, knelt on his chair, his chubby hands clasped over his mouth stifling his giggles but failing to cover the dimple in [...]
What Do We Remember?
Today’s word to journal at OneWord is “remember.” Easy to write about for someone who teaches memoir writing, wouldn’t you think? Not exactly, since the broad scope of the word caused me to contemplate the whole notion of how memories are formed. Why do we remember certain moments in our lives so clearly while others are [...]
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