Tag: memoir
member name: David Rochester
|
October 23, 2006 11:24 PM EDT --
Recently it was suggested to me by a Gather and blogging friend that publication of memoir is a serious betrayal of trust, and that sharing of personal experience is better accomplished by fictionalization . . .
more
|
|
October 14, 2006 11:18 PM EDT --
I recognized her the moment I looked at her, though I had never seen her before. She emerged from her car in a teasing rhythm of disparate pieces: first . . .
more
|
|
October 11, 2006 04:34 AM EDT --
Today I finished the seemingly endless task of cleaning out my Random Stuff closet, which involved looking inside each box of Random Stuff to see if it contained anything I wanted to keep. . . .
more
|
|
October 01, 2006 08:13 PM EDT --
When I left home for college, I was two months past seventeen, an only child who had been incredibly socially isolated, who knew nothing about how to interact with his peers, who was introverted, . . .
more
|
|
September 27, 2006 11:54 PM EDT --
I arrived at the library half an hour early, to set up the meeting room for the play-reading group, and also to do some preparation for the reading which I had left until the last minute. I . . .
more
|
|
September 28, 2006 01:31 AM EDT --
I went for a walk this afternoon through a pleasant neighborhood where I had been showing houses. I know the area fairly well, but I was surprised to suddenly come upon a small playground situated . . .
more
|
|
October 22, 2006 08:28 PM EDT --
Helen was vulnerable when she sang Samuel Barber's song The Crucifixion, her bell-clear voice transparent with pain. I remembered that her own son had died before his third birthday, but not . . .
more
|
|
February 20, 2009 02:53 PM EST --
Readers of this blog have suffered graciously through countless whinging stories about my miserable childhood. This is an anecdote about something kind someone did for me, and which I remembered . . .
more
|
|
May 25, 2007 10:07 AM EDT --
Today I’m pleased to host a leg of Beryl Singleton Bissell’s blog book tour for the newly-released paperback edition of her memoir The Scent of God, the extraordinary story of Beryl’s . . .
more
|
|
September 24, 2006 01:46 PM EDT --
*Note to the reader: this piece is unfinished. Your opinion as to whether I should bother with finishing it would be welcome. It will not be an easy task, and I'm not sure if I should . . .
more
|
|
|
|
