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  • Beautiful! So beautifully said! Thank you. As a journaling teacher for over three deca...hear our voices and words, drops us into a listening, reflective-contemplative mode wherein we are received. Rece...
  • Kelly -- Thanks so much for this description of your journalistic-memoiristic mode.  All fascinating.  I think it...
  • I learned this when my kids were small and then again when they were emotional teenagers. When they'd get into Debbie-Downer mode, I do a little analysis such...
  • Deborah - I love this and I love you for tackling it.  Brave and wonderful of you. Clearly, there's more to talk about (and more depth to mine) than I know I can manag...
  • I'm enjoying your posts on SW and on your website.  Much of what you say I've heard before.  I don't mean that in a negative way.  It is just universal writing wisdom...
  • I am so sorry , Kamy, what a horrible experience, And no , it doesn't help for anyone to rationalize that this swill give you something to write about. I hope that you...
  • I am confronting a similar problem in my memoir about my relationship with my husband who, after we have been separated for five years, has a massive brain hemorrhage,...
  • She was, although I never saw it in her, a beautiful woman. My father loved her and stayed by her, although he was never monogamous. I loved her, as all children love...
  • Cheryl, please don't think I'm just saying this to be saying it, but I know your pain and frustration.  About four years ago, I underwent a 4-part reconstruction of my...
  • This question often arises in workshops I conduct as well as conference discussions.  I like Judith Barrington's notion in Writing the Memoir, that the memoir writer w...