The October Memoir and Backstory Challenge hosted by Jane Ann McLachlan has a new theme for the coming week: Roots and Wings. Memories of home, leaving or finding it, and of travel or journeys. My parents gave us “roots” by visiting my grandparents’ … Continue reading →
This week’s theme for the October Memoir and Backstory Challenge hosted by Jane Ann McLachlan is Secrets. So far, I wrote about secrets that I’m not revealing: Not My Secret — October Memoir Challenge about secrets that aren’t mine to tell Secretive Art … Continue reading →
This week’s theme for the October Memoir and Backstory Challenge hosted by Jane Ann McLachlan is Secrets. As I wrote in my first post, authentic writing requires honesty, but not all secrets need to be revealed. A category of secrets that I keep … Continue reading →
The theme for the next three posts in the October Memoir and Backstory Challenge hosted by Jane Ann McLachlan is Secrets. I fretted a bit about this theme, but I finally landed on a solution. For the first two posts, I’m going … Continue reading →
For this week’s October Memoir and Backstory Challenge theme of Relationships, I’m comparing my life with my mother’s life at the same ages. I’ve visited two ages so far: Mother and Me, Age 6 — October Memoir Challenge Mother and Me, Age … Continue reading →
For this week’s October Memoir and Backstory Challenge theme of Relationships, I’m comparing my life with my mother’s life at the same ages. On Monday, I looked at age 6 when my mother had rheumatic fever and I moved from Utah … Continue reading →
For the second week of the October Memoir and Backstory Challenge, the theme is Relationships. I’m going to do something that I thought of at the end of the challenge last year — explore how my life compared with my mother’s … Continue reading →
The October Memoir Challenge posting days are the odd-numbered ones, but I’m putting my third post up early since I’ll be at an all-day photography workshop tomorrow. The first week’s theme was Childhood. I covered two sub-themes of things that showed … Continue reading →
When my sister-in-law and I were planning the 18th birthday party for a nephew today, we decided he probably would still want a birthday cake. In fact, we remembered birthday cakes still feeling special well into our twenties, when we … Continue reading →
Last year’s version of the October Memoir and Backstory Challenge was organized by year — one post per year through age 25. That teased out some memories that I would never have managed with a different structure. But it made it difficult … Continue reading →