Memoir – Book Club Babble

I’m not a memoir fan. I’m generally of the opinion that when I read, I want to be entertained. I want to get lost in a fictional world with a story so satisfying that the hours fly by. There’s truth in fiction ... Read More...

Losing a Daughter to the Opioid Epidemic: An Interview with Elise Schiller

Kelly Sarabyn

Interviews

Elise Schiller’s daughter Giana Natali was a Division I swimmer and veterinary technician before succumbing to a drug addiction that ultimately led to her death. Schiller’s memoir Even if Your Heart Would Liste... Read More...

How One Mother Defeated the Odds and Built a Baby Blanket Empire

Kelly Sarabyn

Interviews

Raegan Moya-Jones was a mother in her thirties when she decided to start her own company selling baby blankets. Despite lacking a business education or any knowledge of the textile industry, she launched aden +... Read More...

The Power of Story to Change Organizations

Kelly Sarabyn

Interviews

General Electric (GE) became one of the largest entities in the world not by continuing to develop new ideas, but by buying other companies, and expanding into financial services. In her book, Imagine It Forwar... Read More...

The Author’s Cut with Rebecca Faye Smith Galli

Maribel Garcia

Interviews, The Author's Cut

Rebecca Faye Smith Galli (Becky), author of Rethinking Possible: A Memoir of Resilience, is a weekly columnist who lives in Baltimore, Maryland and writes about love, loss, and healing. A Morehead-Cain Scholar ... Read More...

Is the Key to Being Resilient, Keeping Hope Realistic? An Interview with Memoirist, Rebecca Faye Smith Galli

Maribel Garcia

Book Club Questions, Interviews, Memoir, on Writing, Reviews

In this memoir, we meet Becky Galli. We are first introduced to the author's life while she is safely ensconced in a pretty idyllic 1960s southern upbringing-complete with the pastor father and a stay-at-ho... Read More...

“Notes on a Banana” by David Leite: Book Review by Sala Wyman

Sala Wyman

Interviews

This book is about so much more than food. David Leite’s Notes on a Banana is so much more than a memoir about his journey as a food writer. Leite walks his readers through a poignant world of self-discover... Read More...

Is Memoir Vanity or An Act of Love? By Susan G. Weidener

Susan Weidener

Memoir, on Creativity, on Writing

Not everyone understands why some write their memoirs. They dismiss it as narcissistic vanity. Why write something so personal they ask? Who cares? Stories are my passion, so I am biased that writing memoir,... Read More...

Family Myths and the Memoir Writer by Susan G. Weidener

Susan Weidener

Memoir, on Writing

The memoir writer has the unenviable task of breaking through the family myths to get to the heart of her story and the people who populate it. Too often we bow “to the legend,” as Virginia Woolf writes in her ... Read More...

Author Interview with Alicia DiFabio, author of Women Who Tri: A Reluctant Athlete’s Journey to the Heart of America’s Newest Obsession

Maribel Garcia

Interviews, Reviews

Ever wonder when the marathon and triathlon craze started? You know what I’m talking about – that time before your Facebook posts were inundated with scores of women from all walks of life crossing the finishin... Read More...

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