http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog Hundreds of Essays and Interviews to Help You Read and Write Memoirs Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:39:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 2006-2007 jerrywaxler@yahoo.com (Jerry Waxler) jerrywaxler@yahoo.com (Jerry Waxler) Self-help 1440 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/LearnMemoirCoverFront-small.jpg http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog 144 144 Reading and writing memoirs. Record the Stories of Your Life, tips, how-to, memoir book reviews, by Jerry Waxler memoir, writers, self-help, book-reviews, essays Jerry Waxler Jerry Waxler jerrywaxler@yahoo.com no no http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/color-water-mcbride/ http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/color-water-mcbride/#comments Tue, 08 Sep 2009 11:49:52 +0000 jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/?p=582 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/color-water-mcbride/feed/ 6 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/self-image-in-society/ http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/self-image-in-society/#comments Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:42:21 +0000 jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/?p=138 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/self-image-in-society/feed/ 3 0:00:01 A memoir shows we're all connected "No person is an island" - we are on our individual life journey in company with society. Review this memoir to see how your story relates to the world. Jerry Waxler no no http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/hair-in-the-melting-pot/ http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/hair-in-the-melting-pot/#comments Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:15:21 +0000 jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/?p=137 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/hair-in-the-melting-pot/feed/ 14 0:00:01 My dark brown hair grew longer, and curled into a tangle that looked vaguely like an Afro. Home from the University of Wisconsin that first summer of 1966, my great-uncle Ben, with whom I had always got along, said "I didn't know we had anything lik[...] My dark brown hair grew longer, and curled into a tangle that looked vaguely like an Afro. Home from the University of Wisconsin that first summer of 1966, my great-uncle Ben, with whom I had always got along, said "I didn't know we had anything like that in the family." We never spoke civilly to each other again. Back at school in Madison, Wisconsin the following year, some boys drove to campus to beat up kids who looked like me. They jumped out of their car, threw me to the ground and kicked me for a while to let me know that long hair was against the American way. Aging Jerry Waxler no no http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/myths-and-memoirs-%e2%80%93-am-i-a-victim/ http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/myths-and-memoirs-%e2%80%93-am-i-a-victim/#comments Sat, 02 Jun 2007 13:34:17 +0000 jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/?p=40 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/myths-and-memoirs-%e2%80%93-am-i-a-victim/feed/ 0 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/barack-obamas-memoir-ends-with-a-homecoming/ http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/barack-obamas-memoir-ends-with-a-homecoming/#comments Tue, 22 May 2007 11:26:09 +0000 jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/?p=35 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/barack-obamas-memoir-ends-with-a-homecoming/feed/ 4 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/blind-warrior-finds-his-voice-by-writing/ http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/blind-warrior-finds-his-voice-by-writing/#comments Mon, 14 May 2007 10:36:14 +0000 jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/?p=31 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/blind-warrior-finds-his-voice-by-writing/feed/ 0 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/barack-obama-dreams-from-my-father-first-thoughts/ http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/barack-obama-dreams-from-my-father-first-thoughts/#comments Wed, 25 Apr 2007 10:33:45 +0000 jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/?p=24 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/barack-obama-dreams-from-my-father-first-thoughts/feed/ 0 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/tool-for-learning-memoir-authors-first-book-a-triumph-over-odds/ http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/tool-for-learning-memoir-authors-first-book-a-triumph-over-odds/#comments Tue, 10 Apr 2007 10:03:42 +0000 jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/?p=16 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/tool-for-learning-memoir-authors-first-book-a-triumph-over-odds/feed/ 0 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/60s-nostalgia-memoirs-of-growing-up-black/ http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/60s-nostalgia-memoirs-of-growing-up-black/#comments Wed, 04 Apr 2007 12:49:30 +0000 jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/?p=14 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/60s-nostalgia-memoirs-of-growing-up-black/feed/ 1 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/memoirs-teach-me-about-life-and-writing/ http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/memoirs-teach-me-about-life-and-writing/#comments Tue, 27 Mar 2007 12:31:10 +0000 jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/?p=6 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/memoirs-teach-me-about-life-and-writing/feed/ 0