Book Launch for Marjorie St. Clair—February 19, 2023
Book Launch for Marjorie’s New Memoir:A Southern Belle in Paris on Sunday, Feb. 19, 2023 via Zoom. I cordially invite you to attend my Zoom Book Launch on Sunday, February 19, 2023, hosted by poet, artist and activist Jules Nyquist of Poetry Playhouse in Placitas, NM.
Winter Hag Woman’s Welcome to 2023
Like most folks I know, we can hardly believe that 2022 is behind us. What happened? It went so fast! Instead of looking back over the past year as I usually do, I have become absorbed with the year’s four seasonal cycles themselves and how they weave us seamlessly into the year’s events, taking us from birth, growth, to death and back again.
Women Raise Their Voices
History is replete with myths and historical events detailing both the honoring and persecution of women and girls. There is a collective women’s wisdom that has been fought for and won by women who’ve taken a stand, using their bodies as well as their pens to raise their voices against injustices. As a result of their bravery and sacrifices, we women of today enjoy many rights that our mothers & grandmothers didn’t have. As writers, we choose to carry on this tradition of speaking out and RAISING OUR VOICES.
CHARTRES CATHEDRAL: Where Spirit & Matter Converge
Aloha & Welcome to My Blog Poet Mary Oliver said “Do what brings you joy and then write about it.” Often writing about joyful or blissful times are as difficult as writing about those times where we suffered some misjustice or harm. When describing joyful events,...
PARIS IS A WOMAN
Aloha & Welcome to My Blog Place is a crucial component of any good story. Not only does it vivify where the action is happening or happened but also helps to define and reveal the story’s characters that place has shaped in distinct ways. ...
GYPSIES AND FRANCE’S WINE COUNTRY
Aloha & Welcome to My Blog Memoir writers often struggle with what memories from their well-lived lives to include in their telling. The more difficult experiences in our lives usually conjure up an emotional catharsis as we strive to talk about them...
BIKINIS, BOMBS AND BABIES: Part Two
Aloha & Welcome to My Blog All writers have to face into their own ideas and experiences of fear, grief, and sorrowful situations if they’re going to write about them with any authenticity; whether it’s those experienced and recalled in memoir writing, or...
BIKINIS, BOMBS AND BABIES: Part One
Aloha & Welcome to My Blog First, I’m enjoying the comments to my blogs some of you are sending & the opportunity it gives to re-connect with many of you! Thanks! MEMOIR TIP: Here’s a simple but important tip when you’re writing your memoir. It helps your...
Radioactive Fallout
Aloha & Welcome to My Blog One aspect of writing a memoir is to show how your main character, YOU, has changed over time. What events or situations caused that change? Did the change happen slowly over many years or was it quick? These changes are but a few...
War and Faith
Aloha & Welcome to My Blog Writing your memoir means you’re looking back at things, people & events that happened in your life, some of them wonderful and some, not so much. One very difficult time in my life was when my then husband was sent to Vietnam, just...
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