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How Train Wreck Got Its Name
Selecting food as a memoir topic is always a good way to get un-stuck if you are stuck. Food looms large in our childhood memories and brings back so many associations. For example, I always think...
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Helen Jewett’s Quick Chocolate Cookies
Recipe memoirs are fun to share. I wrote one about my Grandmother Jewett and her Quick Chocolate Cookies. Grandmother Jewett used to pick up my cousins Clay and Kurt after school in Sonoita, AZ, in...
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Tom Jewett’s Ton Cake Recipe Memoir
Tom Jewett, my younger brother, builds and flies airplanes. Tom is a lifelong aviation expert-amateur. When he was a little boy, he told Mother he wanted to learn how to read in order to build model...
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Your Stuff, Your Memoir?
I used to think memoir consists of three things: (1) writing, (2) in the first person, (3) about a thin slice of a person’s life. “The reader doesn’t want the whole iceberg, just the tip,” to...
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Lucinda’s Ginger Cookies
A "recipe memoir." Lucinda Mock's Ginger Cookie Recipe Tags: recipe memoirs, Thanksgiving recipes
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