Tag: memoir
group name: cr8nonfiction
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October 13, 2006 09:38 PM EDT --
Chelle lives in one of those cream-colored cookie cutter homes at the top of skull hill. The native people named it Calavera, and until the builders dug into the hard scrub dirt, no one knew why. The bulldozers . . . more
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October 23, 2006 11:24 PM EDT --
Recently it was suggested to me by a Gather and blogging friend that publication of memoir is a serious betrayal of trust, and that sharing of personal experience is better accomplished by fictionalization . . . more
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October 14, 2006 11:18 PM EDT --
I recognized her the moment I looked at her, though I had never seen her before. She emerged from her car in a teasing rhythm of disparate pieces: first . . . more
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August 06, 2006 10:32 AM EDT --
At the end of eighth grade, my homeroom teacher marched us into the cafeteria and handed out number two pencils. We sat at long bench tables covered in graffiti scratches and filled in circles on endless . . . more
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August 04, 2006 08:05 AM EDT --
I had serious Avon Apathy this late summer. Sure, I knocked on doors, left satin smooth brochures and samples of beauty promise on beach cottage porches, under doormats, stuffed behind screen doors, balanced . . . more
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March 12, 2007 12:34 AM EDT --
WISHING HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH IT
Let's see. Ten rejections, two more . . . more
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August 06, 2006 12:00 AM EDT --
<font size="3"><span style="">I look back on my high school years in the 1940s with the sentient of an ex-con recalling hard time in a maximum security prison.
We didn't . . . more
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August 16, 2006 09:38 PM EDT --
REJECTION HAS FELT WORSE
So the first round of four submissions . . . more
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October 21, 2007 05:31 AM EDT --
[Part 1: The Shrine]
My mother was a religious zealot and an artful seamstress. I didn’t have much choice except to prepare myself for fashionable sainthood.
From the time I knew . . . more
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September 24, 2006 01:46 PM EDT --
*Note to the reader: this piece is unfinished. Your opinion as to whether I should bother with finishing it would be welcome. It will not be an easy task, and I'm not sure if I should . . . more
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August 05, 2006 06:42 PM EDT --
APPARENTLY . . . more
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August 27, 2006 05:22 PM EDT --
I stamp the back of each one of my Avon brochures with my name, address, e-mail, and cell-phone number, stamp them in time to music, in time to my repeating thoughts. Every two weeks I perform the ritual, . . . more
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February 14, 2007 09:20 AM EST --
I wrote this book because I wanted to share with people, using my own experiences, how children are drawn into brutal wars, how communities and societies collapse during . . . more
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March 16, 2007 08:10 PM EDT --
I recently completed writing a full-length book based on my experiences selling Avon in So Cal (prior to moving to New Mexico a little over a year ago), as well as the incredible journey I had meeting . . . more
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October 26, 2007 08:55 AM EDT --
Against a colorful mosaic speckled with various cultural legacies from various civilizations around the world, she had sprung from a hardy race that upholds men as the reason for its being.
Yet, . . . more
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January 04, 2008 07:39 PM EST --
Those who think of the 1950s as dull and nearly sexless never lived through that tumultuous era. Those of us who were young then, remember a decade crammed with excitement, change, conflict . . . more
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December 29, 2007 02:32 PM EST --
THE BEST LAID PLANS....
A funny thing . . . more
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July 09, 2006 10:06 AM EDT --
.... BUT WILL IT SELL?
The first entry of my journal when I was . . . more
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February 17, 2007 11:18 PM EST --
BRINGING THE RECORD UP TO DATE
In response to a few Gathers who have . . . more
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February 23, 2008 01:28 PM EST --
STRUGGLING WITH STRUGGLE . . . more
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