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Memoir Notebook: A Tune Beyond the River

By Jeffrey Streeter 2 Comments

shanghai pearl tower-chinese poetry

One traveler goes searching for Chinese poetry in modern Shanghai, and it seems to elude. Until a visit to Du Fu’s cottage.

Filed Under: article, Blog, China, Classic Poetry, Memoir Notebook

Memoir Notebook: The Minors

By John Mitchell Morris 3 Comments

water droplets on metal beam

What does it really mean to be an adult? Guest author John Mitchell Morris’s haunting story challenges us to consider.

Filed Under: Blog, Memoir Notebook

Memoir Notebook: Three Summers, Part 2: Bucking Hay

By Rick Maxson 9 Comments

Bucking Hay harvest

Richard Maxson continues his boyhood farming tale, reflecting on the harvest of transcendent memories cultivated in an alfalfa field.

Filed Under: Blog, Memoir Notebook, Patron Only

Memoir Notebook: Three Summers, Part One: The Seed

By Rick Maxson 14 Comments

Three Summers Part One The Seed golden field

A city boy goes to spend the summer on a farm in rural Ohio, and the experience stays with him into his golden years, still surprising him with the way it reveals plain and not-so-plain truths.

Filed Under: Farm Poems, Memoir Notebook, Patron Only

Memoir Notebook: A Courtyard in Queens

By Dheepa R. Maturi 18 Comments

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Dheepa Maturi reflects on her little Queens, New York, courtyard and its open-minded, open-hearted embrace, which welcomed and encircled and protected her.

Filed Under: Blog, Memoir Notebook, New York Tour

Memoir Notebook: Kate DiCamillo’s Newbery Medal Acceptance Speech

By Kate DiCamillo 15 Comments

Kate DiCamillo Newberry Acceptance Speech Rope Ladder

Kate DiCamillo listened to the approaching siren and thought it was the first time in her life she had heard that sound and not wondered who it was for.

Filed Under: Beautiful Words, Blog, Books, Children's Authors, Memoir Notebook

Memoir Notebook: Waterfall of Sweet Dreams—Conclusion: Bird on a Wire

By Rick Maxson 8 Comments

Sunflower field Memoir Notebook Bird on a Wire

In this final installment of his Waterfall of Sweet Dreams Memoir series, Richard Maxson leaves Hollywood to pursue new dreams imparted by an English professor.

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Memoir Notebook: Waterfall of Sweet Dreams—Part III: Disenchantment

By Rick Maxson 8 Comments

The disenchantment of the acting life sends Richard Maxson toward the greater question of what will really bring him happiness.

Filed Under: Blog, Memoir Notebook

Memoir Notebook: Waterfall of Sweet Dreams—Part II: Bummer and the Rat

By Rick Maxson 13 Comments

Richard Maxson struggled to embrace his Hollywood dream of becoming an actor until he befriended a stray cat he named Bummer.

Filed Under: Blog, Memoir Notebook

Memoir Notebook: Waterfall of Sweet Dreams—Part I: The Call

By Rick Maxson 10 Comments

Hollywood Hill Waterfall of Sweet Dreams The Call

That is exactly how he thought of acting—as just another job. One day Richard Maxson looked up the number of Columbia Pictures Studios and made the call.

Filed Under: Blog, Memoir Notebook

Memoir Notebook: In the Jingle Jangle Morning, 1965

By Rick Maxson 14 Comments

Grand Canyon Memoir Notebook Jingle Jangle Morning

A young Richard Maxson takes off in the Jingle Jangle Morning of Bob Dylan’s “Tambourine Man” on a cross country road trip and into his own Tomorrowland.

Filed Under: Blog, Memoir Notebook

Memoir Notebook: Harp Dreams and Good Vibrations

By Sandra Heska King 19 Comments

Sandra Heska King writes a new story for her life by taking up the harp … again.

Filed Under: Blog, Memoir Notebook, Music

Memoir Notebook: Searching for Arkansas

By Rick Maxson 17 Comments

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Rick Maxson and his family have lived many places, but their search for home ultimately led them to the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas.

Filed Under: Blog, Memoir Notebook

Memoir Notebook: My Moveable Feast

By Michelle Rinaldi Ortega 23 Comments

Paris Metro Sign-Memoir Notebook My Moveable Feast

In our latest Memoir Notebook, Michelle Rinaldi Ortega travels to Paris and encounters Ernest Hemingway and his Moveable Feast.

Filed Under: Blog, Memoir Notebook

Memoir Notebook: Molly and the Thieves

By Rick Maxson 21 Comments

Memoir Notebook Molly and the Thieves

In our latest Memoir Notebook, Richard Maxson remembers his beloved German Shepherd Molly, in a tale of love, loss, and a band of thieves.

Filed Under: Blog, Memoir Notebook, Writing in Place

Memoir Notebook: Sweet Talk

By Darrelyn Saloom 38 Comments

Tweetspeak Poetry - Memoir Notebook - Sweet Talk by Darrelyn Saloom

In this Memoir Notebook, Darrelyn Saloom recalls watching her stepfather raise his right arm. This time, his open hand curled into a fist.

Filed Under: Blog, Memoir Notebook, Writing in Place

Memoir Notebook: Too Close for Comfort

By Darrelyn Saloom 25 Comments

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Darrelyn Saloom reveals childhood fears, both macro–the Cold War–and micro–her stepfather’s anger–in this entry in the Memoir Notebook.

Filed Under: Blog, Memoir Notebook, Writing in Place

Memoir Notebook: Writing the Fragile

By Ann Kroeker 25 Comments

Ducks on Water Memoir

In memoir, how do you write what is fragile? Maybe first you have to live it. Courageously remember it. Then tap the fragile in yourself.

Filed Under: Blog, Memoir Notebook

Memoir Notebook: The Worst Kind of Luck

By Darrelyn Saloom 60 Comments

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Darrelyn Saloom recalls her mother, Billie Burnside and the Circle Inn lounge in this poignant entry in the Memoir Notebook.

Filed Under: Blog, Memoir Notebook, Writing in Place

Memoir Notebook: Voices (or, How to Write Spiritual Memoir)

By Anthony Connolly 5 Comments

how to write a spiritual memoir

Heed the voices, says Wm. Anthony Connolly, for they are the memoirist’s own rising from the soul.

Filed Under: Blog, Memoir Notebook, writer's group resources

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