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Eighteen Months to Live by Rachele Baker – the gift of a journal
Journal entries are not memoir. At least, not usually. Rachele Baker, however, took her mother’s end-of-life journal and turned it word-for-word into a book, with just a few notes of explanation here and there and some letters her mother wrote … Continue reading
Loss of a loved one, finding poetry in caregiving
It is over. It is ironic that I wrote about my recent first experience with Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) for my last blog post. I love the meaning behind this Mexican holiday of honoring those who … Continue reading
Mother’s Day mother memoirs and stories
Sharon Lippincott’s latest post on The Heart and Craft of Life Writing blog, links to a list of Flavorwire’s 10 best mother memoirs. Sadly (to me), almost none of them are about women who were good mothers who led their children to be well-adjusted, … Continue reading
