Magical Memoir Moments
Summertime: A Single Metaphor Mini-Memoir
Summertime and the leaves are green and the sky is blue! It’s the season of childhood and freedom. I remember summers long ago–bare feet, walks in the creek, kick the can and hide-and-go-seek. And all the fresh fruit and vegetables straight from the garden or the market. In the summer life is one big bowl…
The Center for Mennonite Writing: Issue on Personal Writing
The English department of Goshen College has created a Center for Mennonite Writing online, including a new journal. The latest issue deserves special mention because it is about personal writing, life writing, or as we know it here, memoir. One of my stories, “Daddy’s Girl,” which tells the story of how and why I bit…
A Moveable Feast: Classic Memoir, Classic Metaphor
On the memoir bookshelf in my home office sit at least 100 memoirs. Many of these are classics I read long ago without thinking of them as memoirs. Some, like the one I focus on now, are famous books that fit the category but that I have never read. Thinking about genre has allowed me…