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My Sister’s Keeper and the scrapbook filled with memories

For those who saw the movie My Sister’s Keeper, didn’t you love the scrapbook young Kate made for her family? The dying girl pasted up a scrapbook so filled with photo cutouts you could hardly see the background paper and … Continue reading

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National Lifewriting Month: the staying power of memoirs

November is National Lifewriting Month. Have you started your memoir yet? Memoirs have been hitting the charts for many years now and readers have not show signs of exhaustion. Library Journal recently noted that “publishers are putting a fair amount … Continue reading

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Superior Scribbler Award

Surprise! I have been honored to receive a Superior Scribbler Award from fellow life writing blogger Sharon Lippincott (The Heart and Craft of Life Writing). This award has been in the blogosphere since October 2008 when The Scholastic Scribe, a … Continue reading

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