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/memoir-aging-disability/ http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/memoir-aging-disability/#comments Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:22:32 +0000 jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/?p=310 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/memoir-aging-disability/feed/ 1 0:09:37 The children's illustrator, Maurice Sendak told an interviewer that when he was little, he was scared of old people. He was afraid of their wrinkled skin and hair growing out of the wrong places. "Now that you are 80 years-old yourself, do you feel [...] The children's illustrator, Maurice Sendak told an interviewer that when he was little, he was scared of old people. He was afraid of their wrinkled skin and hair growing out of the wrong places. "Now that you are 80 years-old yourself, do you feel you have become a monster to the small children who read your books?" "Absolutely" he answered. "Many children at signings are afraid of me and burst into tears when their mother tells them to hand me their book." Disability, Idealism/Meaning Jerry Waxler no no