Marion Roach Smith’s alternate sisterly reality, with Margaret Roach.
Last week’s memoir class began much like every first-week-of-November class I’ve taught for the last 14 years. No one had agreed to this beforehand. No one had said anything. No memo had gone out. There was no round-robin email suggesting that we turn our writing in any particular direction at the same time we turn back our clocks. It just happened, just like it happens every year. The reason? [click to continue…]
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Me, on the swim team, before I knew the 15 Rules.
WHY WOULD I BE ASKED TO SPEAK at a school commencement, my daughter wanted to know? I am no one’s idea of a traditional role model. But I’ve been able to chart my life to do what I love, so my speech turned out to be a list of rules to help the girls do just that. 15 Rules for Living, from overseas travel to a certain pair of red shoes: [click to continue…]
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A SISTER-FRIEND FROM OUR extended network, writer and yoga instructor Joely Johnson Mork, sent us the following piece back in December, during which time all of us were otherwise engaged making other kinds of lists. But I keep thinking of Joely’s offering, and wanted to share it. One week after a loss she was certain she would never write about, the death of her best friend, I asked Joely, a former student in my memoir-writing class, if she thought she could simply bring in a list of thoughts related to the event. She actually she wrote a series of three lists, about her last visit with Mary. I offer them here, in another busy time of year, to again help us take stock of what we value. [click to continue…]
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IT’S THE HOLIDAYS, the season to make lists. I had planned to write about that, as in what’s on my list/what’s on Margaret’s. But in The Sister Project’s first week online, so many of you emailed and commented about another topic that I’m moved to take it on here. The topic? Missing your sister at this time of year. [click to continue…]
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BIKING WITH MOM: Nowhere is our story more two-sided than on the topic of our mother.
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