by Sandra Lynne Reed | Sep 29, 2020 | Uncategorized
Vern and I made our first longish road trip in many months, to visit our son for a couple of days. Planning for the unfortunate necessity of limiting our contact with people, we filled a cooler with food for all our meals on the way down and back. At home, air quality...
by Sandra Lynne Reed | Jul 23, 2020 | Uncategorized
What kind of road-tripper are you? Different people define ‘road trip’ in different ways. Whatever your definition, you’ll get no judgment from me. I support all kinds of road trips! Which of these road trip styles looks best to you? 1. Day trips from a vacation home...
by Sandra Lynne Reed | Apr 23, 2020 | Uncategorized
The memoir mine: spiritual experiences Put “spiritual memoir” in the Amazon search window, and you’ll find more than 8,000 results. They cover a broad range of religious and spiritual experience, from stories of meeting Jesus to the spiritual...
by Sandra Lynne Reed | Apr 17, 2020 | Memoirs, Uncategorized
Memoir mine: Creating your memoir experience Can you create your own memoir experience? Millions of readers shared the experience of Frances Mayes as she fell in love with Italian food and rebuilt a rundown Italian farmhouse. Under the Tuscan Sun, her memoir, topped...
by Sandra Lynne Reed | Apr 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
The memoir mine: Social and cultural issues All of us grew up somewhere. That somewhere included a social and cultural setting. For me, the tiny berg of Moose Pass, Alaska deeply influenced my first dozen years. Insular, yet inherently limiting, Moose Pass was home...
by Sandra Lynne Reed | Apr 3, 2020 | Uncategorized
The memoir mine: family history Every three or four years my sister and I take a family history trip together. We’ve visited the tiny Idaho town where our dad was born, and met a woman who knew his grandparents. In England we tramped through dozens of...
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