WHEN I SAY potato, you know what you say, right? Hmmm. Maybe you don’t.

At “She Said/She Said” we explore that old, “You say potato, and I say poe-tah-toe” thing that sisters do—that not quite seeing the same experience in the very same way.

The idea of this blog came from a class I teach in memoir. Called Writing What You Know, the once-a-week course has run for 10 years, to date attracting 500 students, and recently the subject of an article in the Albany Times Union. Pretty much every single week someone has related what they felt when after reading a heartfelt personal essay to a family member, that family member responded, “That’s not what happened,” or some version on that theme. Just this week a man introduced himself, saying, “My sister says I write stories and that she tells the truth.” [click to continue…]

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