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Memoir

So you want to publish your memoirs

Bowen Craig - January 10, 2021 1

Publishing a book used to be so much simpler, and so much harder. While the 21st century has democratized the process of publishing— it’s...

Memoir

The meaning of Motown for a white kid

Jim Marshall - October 28, 2020 1

Do you remember them? Smoky Robinson and the Miracles, The Temptations, The Four Tops, The Drifters, Aretha Franklin, The Supremes, The Chiffons, The Shirelles,...

Memoir

To everything there is a season. Some thoughts on inner harvesting

Virginia Carver - October 20, 2019 3

There’s a small branching plant with clusters of yellow pods that burst open in the fall to reveal intense orange, jewel-like berries. In Indiana...

Memoir

The Crazy Club

Charlotte "Chip" McDaniel - October 27, 2018 0

On my fiftieth birthday I visited Mother at her nursing home, thinking about my own mortality. Mother was hunched in her old brown recliner...

Memoir

Letters from Vietnam: 1967 & 1968. A follow up

Betsy Bean - June 8, 2018 0

In response to Myrna Adams West’s two articles about the letters she and her brother Fred exchanged while he was in Vietnam, several readers...

Memoir

Letters from Vietnam, 1968: Love that knows no boundaries.

Myrna Adams West - March 19, 2018 5

In January and February 1968 while I was sleeping snug and warm in my dorm at Tift College, my brother Frederick was spending nights...

Memoir

My Vietnam Decision: Join or Be Drafted

Betsy Bean - March 19, 2018 1

Larry Hudson had never contemplated going to college — it wasn’t a common goal for African American young men when he graduated from segregated Burney Harris...

Memoir

My Vietnam Decision: Deferment and Luck

Jim Marshall - March 19, 2018 1

The year 1969 was not altogether different from this year — the country was deeply divided by politics, race, culture, geography, and most especially,...

Memoir

The Necklace Plant

Rosemary Woodel - March 19, 2018 0

When I was a child, every few weeks we would visit my Aunt Norene, my daddy’s sister, and her husband, Uncle Nat. They lived...

Memoir

Letters from Vietnam, 1967

Myrna Adams West - January 10, 2018 6

Small flakes of snow prickled against my face and hands and left little wet splotches on the stationery on my lap. It was 1967,...

Memoir

A Memoir: What I Learned from a Sexual Assault in 1975

Connie Crawley - September 27, 2016 0

If you ask most people to describe an influential teacher, they will pick an inspirational person who taught them in school or on a...

Memoir

How I Shed My Skin: Unlearning the Racist Lessons of a Southern Childhood

BoomAthens - August 23, 2016 0

White baby boomers born and raised in the deep South each have a unique personal history of their experiences and attitudes about race. They...

Memoir

The Crazy Club

Letters from Vietnam: 1967 & 1968. A follow up

Letters from Vietnam, 1968: Love that knows no boundaries.

My Vietnam Decision: Join or Be Drafted

My Vietnam Decision: Deferment and Luck

The Necklace Plant

Letters from Vietnam, 1967

A Memoir: What I Learned from a Sexual Assault in 1975

How I Shed My Skin: Unlearning the Racist Lessons of a Southern Childhood

Moving Their “Retirement” Home – All 300,000 Pounds.

Home Ec Revisited: More Than Cooking and Sewing

Uber and Lyft

Genealogical Surprises! Love Letters Reveal a Mother I Never Knew

The Acquisitive Generation Begins to Downsize

Magazine

Boomers Write

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