memoir | memoir
Jan.09.2013
Recently, an 11-year-old of my acquaintance who knows I write asked what I was working on.
A memoir, I told him. About my strange childhood.
What was strange about it, he wanted to know.
I grew up at a mental institution. (That's my actual first sentence, one I like very much.)
Okay, he said...
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Dec.31.2012
Taking stock. It’s what people do at this time of year. We reflect on our accomplishments and what we’ll do next year. I’ve never reviewed my year publicly before, but 2012 was different. It was my first full year as a published author, and I celebrated my sixty-fifth birthday.
One of...
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Dec.14.2012
This Christmas there is at least one book I will read with my family, a tradition begun by my mom: Van Dyke's The Other Wise Man, a story beautifully capturing the essence of Christmas and of faith, telling the story of the fourth wise man, who never made it to the manger.
But...
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Dec.10.2012
This is a short memoir about an expansive life and a woman’s amazing spirit. Linda Christianson was diagnosed with polio in 1948 when she was six months old. Many readers may be too young to remember this highly contagious disease that paralyzed many children until a vaccine became available...
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Dec.08.2012
Every so often I come across a book on my show that I think people should read, not just for enjoyment but in many ways for education as well. While I have only been in America for twelve years thanks to a lot of knowledge picked up doing “A Book and a Chat” one could say I know more about the...
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Dec.04.2012
Linda Kovic-Skow, French Illusions, Memoir, France, aupair, learning French, romance, beautiful, captivating, Book and a Chat. When Linda Kovic-Scow reached a form of mid-life crisis after her youngest daughter went off to college she wrote out a form of bucket list consisting of items like “...
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Nov.20.2012
Hi All, Went to a great release party last night for Look Forward, which is a book I wrote with Bob Dixon. It's a great story and worth checking out.
You can find it here: http://www.amazon.com/Look-Forward-Bob-Dixon/dp/1936196131/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1353424148&sr=8-1&keywords=...
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Nov.19.2012
Today there are people sweating in the fields, in the mines, in the factories. Today there are other people clinking cocktails on yachts. Is today Labor Day? No, but every day, for many people, is labor day.
My father worked in a brick mill until long...
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Nov.18.2012
Hi All, This is a book (LINK HERE) that I ghostwrote with Bob Dixon that tells the story of how he helped guide his son and family through weeks in a trauma ICU after his son's motorcycle accident. The story begins with Bob receiving a phone call while in China on business telling him that his...
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Nov.18.2012
I’m privileged to be interviewed this weekend on a fascinating website called MAJK INK. Melody-Ann Jones Kaufmann asked me some very thoughtful questions about writing and my Incomplete Passes friends. If you’d like to go behind the scenes with IP and also meet Melody-Ann, a multitalented woman who...
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