Tag Archives: culture and heritage

New Year resolutions to ask for stories, write the stories

Posted on January 19, 2020 by

It’s a new year and in the next several weeks I will be speaking to a couple seniors groups to persuade them to adopt new year resolutions to begin writing the stories of their lives – mostly because it’s fun … Continue reading →

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The Last Cherry Blossom – WWII Japan for kids

Posted on October 27, 2019 by

I’m an adult, but recently I enjoyed reading a middle-grade historical fiction book by Twitter friend Kathleen Burkinshaw. The Last Cherry Blossom is based closely on her mother’s stories of WWII and surviving the atomic bomb in Hiroshima. These days, … Continue reading →

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Memoir Voice: Keeping the ghost out of ghostwriting

Posted on October 6, 2019 by

Are you writing or editing someone else’s memoir? I am celebrating after finishing the difficult editing of an ESOL memoir. ESOL means English as Second or Other Language, and in this case it might be a fourth language out of … Continue reading →

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