A Real Live Giant: The Mighty Sequoias
On the Trail in the Valley of the Giants Peak your children’s interest in family vacations with attention-grabbing questions. Like a math equation, you need to factor in the age of …
On the Trail in the Valley of the Giants Peak your children’s interest in family vacations with attention-grabbing questions. Like a math equation, you need to factor in the age of …
Author Beth Kephart I had the pleasure of attending a mini workshop in memoir on Penn’s campus with Beth Kephart, a memoir teacher at the University of Pennsylvania. Beth …
Snowball fights in July at Rocky Mountain National Park During our long cross-country drive to Rocky Mountain National Park from New Jersey, after many a camp side sunset, we kept …
Hush, the writer is thinking. What makes my memoir different? A very good question. If you’ve been reading memoirs, you’ll notice that each experience is unique, whether the memoir …
A mix of stories from the Writers Group A fellow writer from the South Jersey Writing Group has interviewed me for the blog Tall Tales and Short Stories from South …
Hiking the desert of Arches National Park Maturity showed in our five children as we drove westward. They had changed their cry from “Are we there yet?” to “How many …
Hard-working mother in college Memoir isn’t a life story. That is autobiography. Memoir is one particular period in a person’s life, one instance or one experience in which the memoirist …
When it’s going well… Although Hemingway and Anne LaMott may call the first draft by a different name, I feel my synonym works just as well. I’m plodding through the …
Dad entertaining the troops Long, long, long driving days ensued when we took the family of seven camping across country, from New Jersey to California. Oh, we tried to break …
A friend from my South Jersey Writers group confirmed what I had been hearing in every class and on every blog. “Your manuscript could be great,” he said, “but if …