We need to be compassionate to ourselves, and then we must be compassionate to those we write about.
CRAFT: The United Stigma of America by Tyler Grimm
Category: Articles
Review: Theology of My Life by John Frame
Five-decade seminary professor John Frame’s Theology of My Life (Cascade Books, 2017) is a self-proclaimed theological and apologetic memoir.
REVIEW: A Woman Is A Woman Until She Is A Mother by Anna Prushinskaya
A Woman Is A Woman Until She Is A Mother examines the interconnection of womanhood and motherhood.
Writing Life: Falling in Love with Monsters: On Memoir and Unconditional Love by Tawni Waters
As I’ve delved more…deeply into other great memoirs, and into life in general, I’ve realized that no person, if observed closely, could ever come out on the other end of scrutiny looking anything other than messy,
CRAFT: The Trauma Museum by Tyler Grimm
We are all intimate with grief and trauma. What it feels like, how it slices into us…
WRITING LIFE: My (Real) Life with the Lincolns by Gayle Brandeis
I wanted to write a memoir called My Life with the Lincolns, paralleling my family’s story with the Lincoln family’s story.
Review: Writing As a Path to Awakening: A Year to Becoming an Excellent Writer and Living an Awakened Life by Albert Flynn DeSilver
Albert Flynn DeSilver defines writers as those who write habitually, not just those who have been published.
Review: All I Want To Do Is Live: A Collection of Creative Nonfiction by Trace Ramsey
Trace Ramsey’s All I Want to do is Live, (Pioneers Press, May 2017), is a hodge-podge of the author’s essays, poetry, creative nonfiction vignettes…
Review: The Analyst: Poems by Molly Peacock
This book deserves a new genre: psychoanalytic poetry memoir.
WRITING LIFE: More Than I Dreamed Of, Barely Enough by Sara Petersen
I am learning how to say the words “I’m a writer” without effacing the words with a shoulder shrug or an apologetic smile…
