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/fear-publish-ten-more-tips/ http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/fear-publish-ten-more-tips/#comments Wed, 21 Apr 2010 12:27:41 +0000 jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/?p=772 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/fear-publish-ten-more-tips/feed/ 0 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/senior-adult-storyteller/ http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/senior-adult-storyteller/#comments Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:10:10 +0000 jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/?p=466 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/senior-adult-storyteller/feed/ 8 0:07:08 When I see wrinkles, around my own eyes or someone else's, I think of all the experiences hidden behind them, decades of life now strewn throughout the vast tundra of the mind. If only I could know those memories, they might teach me important lesso[...] When I see wrinkles, around my own eyes or someone else's, I think of all the experiences hidden behind them, decades of life now strewn throughout the vast tundra of the mind. If only I could know those memories, they might teach me important lessons and they certainly would bring deeper appreciation for the journey. What had those eyes seen? But memories are unknowable in their scattered and disorganized state, and until recently, I was one of the multitudes who had no inkling of how to convert a lifetime of memories into a story. Now, as I scan my life, I think I see the reason. Aging, Family Jerry Waxler no no http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/writing-social-anxiety/ http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/writing-social-anxiety/#comments Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:04:40 +0000 jerrywaxler http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/?p=235 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/writing-social-anxiety/feed/ 1 0:09:36 Jamie Blyth took a job as a sales person and to his horror felt the same anxiety flooding him during important sales calls as he felt talking to girls. Unwilling to give in to these limitations, he kept looking for solutions. Finally, with therapy, [...] Jamie Blyth took a job as a sales person and to his horror felt the same anxiety flooding him during important sales calls as he felt talking to girls. Unwilling to give in to these limitations, he kept looking for solutions. Finally, with therapy, self-help books, and relentless effort he reduced his anxiety enough to confront his two worst fears in one crazy act - selling himself to a girl, in front of a national audience. Jerry Waxler no no