by Memoir Mentor on February 29, 2012
My spring teaching term began last week, and what a joy it is to be back in the classroom with a lively group of senior-age students dedicated to writing stories about all the interesting things they’ve seen and done during their long and fruitful lives. Pat Milligan hit the ground running in the first class [...]
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Elizabeth Taylor,
Margaret O'Brian,
Pat Milligan,
Penny Postcards,
Turhan Bey,
Veronica Lake
by Memoir Mentor on February 5, 2012
I bought my husband a Valentine a few days ago, just like I’ve been doing for the last four decades. Yep, we’ve been together that long, and even though it has been that long, I still want him to know I love him in that way. He shows me in multiple ways that he still [...]
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Johnny Mathis,
The Twelfth of Never,
Write romantically
by Memoir Mentor on January 10, 2012
It starts after I heft the last of the Christmas decorations into the garage attic. I look at the blank spaces in my house where the manger scene, Christmas village, and other decorations sat and realize I need to fill them with the pictures, flower arrangements, and other doo-dads that sit in those places the [...]
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Memoir Mentor,
Memoir Writing,
Organization,
personal-history
