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	<itunes:summary>Record the Stories of Your Life, tips, how-to, memoir book reviews, by Jerry Waxler</itunes:summary>
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		<title>Ten Reasons to Read a Memoir About a Man Who Couldn&#8217;t Eat</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jon Reiner's ending is superb and inspiring. He teaches thoughtful lessons and leaves me with the sense that he is a better person than he was at the beginning. When he makes sense of his life, I feel a surge of hope that others can do the same. Good denouements lead to enthusiastic book recommendations.]]></description>
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		<title>Mom of Troubled Teens Tells Her Side of the Story</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 12:50:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A parent suffering through the rebellion of a child is an important, under-reported facet of family life. Most kids rebel to some extent, and despite all the suffering and confusion that parents must feel, most of the social attention to the matter is limited to half measures and shared confusion. "Live Through This" provides a parent's eye view of an emotional wrenching experience, as these girls hurl back in their mother's face the life she was trying to build for them.  ]]></description>
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		<title>When is a memoir by a celebrity not a celebrity memoir?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 13:32:10 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Andre Agassi Open]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Andre Agassi was one of the greatest tennis players of all time, and he was married to supermodel Brooke Shields. So it would be natural to expect his memoir, "Open," to be just another celebrity memoir, taking a free ride on his household name. But Agassi's memoir was not a vapid look at the privileged life of a star. Instead the tennis player and his ghost-writer J.R. Moehringer, author of the memoir "Tender Bar," converted a lifetime into a good story, filled with emotional insight.
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		<title>Use this memoir as a study guide: lessons 1 to 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 12:53:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Her journey to help her son enter the game of life abounds with courage, psychological sleuthing, and love. It is a warm coming of age story of two people: Jeremy's development into childhood, and his mother's maturity as the shepherd of her son. I learned so much from reading the book that I think it would make an excellent self-study or teacher-led training manual for memoir writers. In this and the following posts, I share 20 lessons I learned from the book, and offer suggestions about how you can apply these ideas to your own memoir.]]></description>
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		<title>Healing With Words, Hers and Yours</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 11:27:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once you have written in your journal, you may desire to publish your story or you may not. Many aspiring memoir writers ask "why should I write my story?" While there are many reasons to consider, one factor to take into account is the value your story might have for other people. Consider the support  that Raab has shared with her readers, and then consider offering your own.]]></description>
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		<title>Memoirs Show Two Sides of the Islamic Revolution</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 11:26:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Their goal was to overthrow Westernized governments and create the kind of world God intended, one all-encompassing Islamic state. At first, Husain's loyalty was torn between his parents and his new friends. Gradually he aligned with his activist peers, fighting against Western values such as freedom and democracy.]]></description>
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		<title>5 More Memoir Book Reviews</title>
		<link>http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/5-more-memoir-reviews/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 11:02:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A typical charge was "promoting prostitution." One young man felt aroused by a girl whose scarf revealed a patch of white skin. He had the girl expelled from the university for this offense against the revolution.]]></description>
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		<title>Courage to Write, Passion to Read</title>
		<link>http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/courage-walk-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 11:50:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jerrywaxler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before I even purchased the book, I knew from the blurb that the author was an English Literature professor at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth. I knew that "Courage to Walk," was about the crippling and potentially deadly illness of a second son, and I knew about the death of Robert and Linda's oldest son, Jonathan. ]]></description>
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		<title>Learn the inner and outer dimensions of memoir writing</title>
		<link>http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/power-memoir-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 11:53:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[And then, Linda Joy goes beyond craft and turns inward towards the heart of the matter. As a professional psychotherapist, Linda Joy helps her clients work through their memories. In this book, she performs a similar service for aspiring memoir writers. In hefty, substantive chapters like "Psychology of Memoir Writing," "The Dark Stuff," and "The Power of Writing to Heal" Linda Joy provides excellent guidance to help you decipher your memories and bring them to the page.]]></description>
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		<title>A leader of memoir writers tells her own story</title>
		<link>http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/interview-linda-joy-myers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 12:07:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jerrywaxler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Associations/Training]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I studied literature it seemed so obvious to me that writing had a psychological component, but in the lit classes this was almost never acknowledged. I'd always thought I wanted to bring the two together somehow, but for a long time couldn't see how to do it. I kept working on my own writing, and then the studies by Dr. Pennebaker and others were published. After I discovered that exciting research, I had a sense of how to integrate my version of healing and psychology with writing--through writing healing stories.]]></description>
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