Looking Forward and Also Remembering

This time, keeping to my theme of how two very different things can be adjacent to one another, often challenging us to make sense of their relationship, will be an easy task. If only I didn’t feel so walloped by recent events in my life, I’d have enough energy left over to try to capture it all. But there’s really no need for that; I’ll just let the basics speak for themselves. In the past six weeks, I’ve experienced three … Read More

Summer is Becoming, and You Are Too

During this month of graduating seniors, burgeoning plants, and creatures newly born, are you also coming into your own?     Are you just the same self you were last year at this time, or do you notice some small but significant differences in your inner landscape? It’s a personal question, I know, and you don’t really have to answer. But I can’t emerge from a year in a Memoir Incubator without asking it, at least of myself. And then, … Read More