memoirs

4 min read 2021-12-10 05:30:32

Salem Sustainability; or the Most Charming Memoir Ever

I came across a delightful short memoir quite by accident yesterday; it was so well-written and charming that I couldn’t stop thinking about it so

6 min read 2021-12-08 16:49:42

I’d taken to calling my father güey, a term that evolved from the word buey, Spanish for ox. Originally, the term buey was used to refer to the

4 min read 2021-12-04 05:23:38

Like Diwali and other religious/cultural holidays between November and December, Hanukkah is called The Festival of Lights and often serves as a

1 min read 2021-11-29 08:14:55

From a classic dystopian novel to an enthralling memoir about dating, sex, and friendship, this list has something for everyone. Everything I Know

1 min read 2021-11-25 19:11:41

It’s been some time since I was on a plane. Or in a hotel. These things seem strange and foreign to me now. Covid-19 is now a fixture in life

1 min read 2021-11-25 01:13:33

The rape conviction at the center of The Lovely Bones author Alice Sebold’s memoir, Lucky, has been overturned after an executive producer on its

1 min read 2021-11-23 18:24:06

The shout-out is an always appreciated gesture. Among the guests on The Incarcerated Christian podcast, I’m pretty clearly the one with the

1 min read 2021-11-19 18:25:53

It’s a veritable horror trope. The swarm, that is. We fear being overwhelmed by vast numbers of apparently innocuous insects or arachnids,

1 min read 2021-11-19 12:00:00

While I Was AwayBy Waka T. BrownQuill Tree Books (an imprint of Harper Collins)$16.99ISBN: 9780063017115Ages 9-12 Memory is unreliable. On some

1 min read 2021-11-17 18:23:08

The other day an older friend asked about my writing. My answer was brief because it’s complicated. Not because I do it from three to four

1 min read 2021-11-15 18:23:27

One benefit of aging is that hiccups become less common. They were always a conversation starter when I was younger—someone you were on a date

1 min read 2021-11-12 19:13:41

9,970 words Miklós Horthy A Life for Hungary: Memoirs London: Hutchinson, 1956 Thomas L. Sakmyster Hungary’s Admiral on Horseback: Miklós

1 min read 2021-11-11 18:23:32

For some reason lost in the fog of weblandia, I get The New York Times, “The Morning” delivered to my email. By carefully not clicking the

1 min read 2021-11-11 04:56:00

Friends Forever. Shannon Hale. Illustrated by LeUyen Pham. 2021. [August] 304 pages. [Source: Library]First sentence: And this year...I was an eighth

1 min read 2021-11-09 18:27:12

If the atmosphere’s an ocean, we’re all bottom-dwellers. Ancient peoples populated the sky above with incorporeal beings, starting with a god,