Magical Memoir Moments

Happy Birthday, Bill Moyers! Eighty Years Young

By Shirley Showalter | June 3, 2014

I first met Bill Moyers while working at The Fetzer Institute, which helped to sponsor Bill Moyers Journal. What a pleasure! We’ve stayed friends even after the Journal went off the air. I’ve been watching Moyers & Company online. But last week, Stuart and I stopped in to see Bill and Judith at their offices…

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Valentine's Day — A Perfect Day to Show and Tell

By Shirley Showalter | February 14, 2013

The artifact today is a 1957 Valentine preserved in the scrapbook that starred in Episode One of Show and Tell, the video series that will run in this blog space once or twice a month, depending on the response it gets from viewers like you. The valentine in the video could use a little more…

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Boy, Did I Love Lucy: A Mini-Memoir

By Shirley Showalter | July 19, 2009

If a genie had appeared to me when I was ten and offered me anything my heart desired, the answer would have poured out of me. Some girls want ponies. Some want Barbies. Some are generous enough to think of others first, asking for world peace or food for the hungry. Others go straight for…

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