Visiting Family During Holidays or at Vacation Time
Slow and easy does it–even on a quad! Happy New Year, everyone! Holidays are a time for visiting. Families and friends get together to catch up on each other’s …
Painting Holiday Wishes with Words
This is the 2014 edition. I haven’t started the 2015 edition. Words, a writer’s paintbrush. Storytelling, essay writing, and poetry carry music and rhythm in the words. Writers paint images …
Is Camping Gear on Your Christmas List?
The troops putting up the Jayco Eagle pop-up. Notice how happy they are? Our oldest wears the smile. It was her turn to crank. If it is, remember that a …
Framing the Memoir: How Does Motherhood Fit into the College Experience?
Fall frames the world in color. A writer friend asked me if my memoir was about how motherhood influenced me as a college student or was it how college influenced …
Finding Dry Shoes in a Camper When You’re Visiting a Land of Waterfalls
Okay, so maybe the children still have some growing up to do, like their mother. Notice the “bunny ears.” “And the huge bear swatted at the earth,” I told the …
Memoirs: More Than Just What Happened
Memoirs require depth and not merely what transpired during the slice of life being recounted through story. The writer needs to look up from her reminiscing, and explain the wider …
Fun Things Camping with Kids in the Fall
Swim goggles may help keep smoke from children’s eyes while marshmallows droop and tan to perfection. If you haven’t tried family camping yet, autumn is a colorful season to introduce …
Beginnings: As in Where to Begin My Memoir
On a journey to a better beginning for the memoir Beginnings are the most important part of books, I feel, be it memoir or …
Size Matters in Camping and Nature
Finally…enough room at the dinner table Finding elbow space at the dinner table is always a problem when you camp with seven in a small pop-up trailer, especially as the …
The Voice in Memoir
Be true to your voice in memoir Restructuring the memoir is fine. Works in progress go through many revisions. The first draft is usually…ahem…vomit, anyway. Okay, at least mine are. …