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You Have 30 hours of Friendship a Year
My mom has this impressive streak of holding onto her friends from elementary school through college. She moved to the US a few years post-grad and still managed to keep up with her girls through calls and annual visits.
Growing up, I went...
The Rose That Followed Me Home:
Image Created in Midjourney
Any trip to Italy is special for me, but this one promised something different. It was not another guided tour designed by someone I didn’t know, built around famous tourist sites I had already seen.
Instead, m...
I Broke Down in Front of My New Therapist
Photo by Alejandro De Roa on Pexels and edited in ChatGPT by the author
She sat opposite me on a cosy couch in a spacious, modern room attached to the back of her house, a self-contained granny flat. It was surrounded by bushland, so isola...
I Go to Live With Nanny
It is the summer of 1963 and I will turn ten this year but I will hardly notice. Other changes happening in my life demand more of my attention. My mother, barely able to cope since she divorced my father, has become involved with a man who...
How’d I get that shot?
This photograph has special meaning for me because it was the first (and sadly) the only photograph I have ever made that won an award.
The photograph was produced as part of the Professional Photographers of America’s “Day in the Life” pr...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
KiKi is an Orange County–based writer raised in the Adirondacks, where big feelings fueled her flair for the dramatic. She loves bad TV, needy dogs, pajamas, & raw, personal stories. Publisher of The Memoirist and The Memoirist Quarterly.
Reflections on fatherhood, disability, and the rituals that hold us together.
Gen X smartass translating a chaotic backstory into true tales of love, grief, reinvention, aging, and resilience. Career writer, musician, lazy gardener. Profound one day, witty the next. You never know which side you're gonna get.
I've got an interesting take on what's changed since I made my bones in the heyday of photo assignments, when magazines ruled the media.
Firstly, and most importantly, I am mother to Adam (forever 24) and to Joseph. I am a writer, teacher and feminist and live in rural North Otago.
And just when she thought she couldn't go on, she did - with wicked humour and a will to survive | Shameless Sugar Addict | Cake is Life
I write plays and prose and lead workshops in a joyful, liberating practice I call Off-Leash Writing. I also teach a memoir/fiction/personal essay workshop and host the Off-Leash Arts podcast.
Wife to one, mom to three, friend to all.
Susan is an author, speaker, and psychologist. Her novel, The Spirit of Vanderlaan, is a cozy ghost story featuring a professor and her lively band of students who get caught up in solving a campus mystery.
Everyone was thinking it...I said it out loud!
Beauty is everywhere and I am constantly distracted by it. I've made my living as a dancer, designer and writer just trying to leave some beauty behind. Here is where I leave some stories.
I am a conservative Christian who loves to enjoy the beauty of nature by hiking in parks and on trails. I enjoy writing and reading ! I love to travel when I can and spend time with people I love and enjoy laughing with as often as possible.
Morally gray, successful person giving social commentary and 20-somethings advice on career, identity, friendships, and love. Observational dry humor.
After a sexless decade, desire returned. Then came Summer of Men. \ud83d\udc8b Sex, dating & love in midlife. Author of the award-winning memoir STRIP.\ud83d\udcda
Writing about food, family, books, art, and movies, not necessarily in that order. New book--Make Yourself Useful: remembering a life in essential tools and unexpected foods--coming in September 2027!
I got sober in midlife. I write through storytelling, about sitting in the ‘uncomfortable’ and what identity means when you’ve finally come up for air. Messy. Greatly imperfect. Proudly honest.
Trauma coach, educator, and writer. Words in HuffPost, She Does the City, Demeter Press, Motherly, and more.
I know more than I'd like to about complex trauma & recovery. I write about both & also things that have helped me: music, humor, books, nature & all that adds beauty and meaning to our lives, not to mention a helluva lot of therapy.
Education leader. Yoga teacher. Writer. Dog mom. Expect stories about dating in your 40s, growing up, growing older, and learning to laugh through all of it.
Newfoundland, Canada
I write about family history, memory and migration. My perspective is shaped by an international, multilingual life and my Russian family’s emigration through Harbin, China. I am the author of “Roots in a Handbag – the Stories of Maria and Olga”.
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