Tell the Story
I feel as if Kay Redfield Jamison has been my guide throughout the process of writing my memoir. The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Professor of Psychiatry took huge professional and personal risks by writing about her life with manic-depressive illness in her 1995 An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness. In my […]
read moreIt's nearly thesis defense showtime. If you've got 28 days, I've got 24 books to read and think about. The most recent draft of my memoir has been distributed to my committee members (3 brilliant writer/ scholar/teachers) and to the graduate school (the associate dean who read it called to tell me she liked it). […]
read moreI discovered Dora McQuaid while Googling for information on doing writing workshops for women in shelters. McQuaid is a poet and activist. Here is an interview from 2004. McQuaid quotes Audre Lorde, another poet/activist whom I read many years ago and had forgotten (but am very happy to remember). From the essay McQuaid cites, "The […]
read moreAnd last night Vice President Joe Biden commemorated the 15th anniversary of the passage of the Violence Against Women Act.
read moreI've been thinking about Roman Polanski's extradition fight. My first reaction was that he should have come back (or been brought back) to the US to face his charges long ago. I am not swayed by references to his artistic talent or claims that he has suffered by his self-imposed exile in Europe. His victim's […]
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For years I kept secrets in silence. Then, once upon a time, I spoke and wrote them to a handful of people and began to blog anonymously. Today I tell my stories face-to-face, online, and in a memoir coming soon. Telling our stories leads to freedom, empowerment, and growth, for both the teller and the told. Is today your once upon a time, your time to tell your story?
