Category Archives: Sarah’s memoir

True stories from my life.

Restoring Family Nature

Posted on May 23, 2012 by

Appearing today on the APH blog is an essay I developed recently for a class. My intent was to produce an example of the “complication, three developments, resolution” outline structure applied to the opinion-essay format (as opposed to an anecdotal … Continue reading →

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A thought for Mothers’ Day…

Posted on May 11, 2012 by

Mothers’ Day has never been an easy occasion for me. My family wasn’t big on celebrating the “Hallmark Holidays.” I remember one time when I was about 12 my friend Janet took me with her when she went shopping for … Continue reading →

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The Transplanting

Posted on May 4, 2012 by

May 1, 2012 Yesterday morning I spent an hour and change on a conference call. As I sat, my eyes took in activity on the small dead-end street that tees off from the busy main street outside the window of … Continue reading →

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Italy’s Festa della Liberazione, an occasion for action

Posted on April 25, 2012 by

Today is April 25, the Festival of Liberation in Italy, celebrating the end of World War II. Four years ago I was celebrating in Cinque Terre. Today, my heart is breaking for the friends I made there and the devastation … Continue reading →

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Salad Tamate, or, a Tale of Two Tomatoes

Posted on March 18, 2012 by

Recently I’ve been working on curriculum for cookbook-memoir classes–one to be taught online, another for a local class at our food coop. This has me trolling for ideas among my notes from the “Meals and Memory” workshop for the Odyssey … Continue reading →

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Bread and Roses for International Women’s Day

Posted on March 8, 2012 by

I don’t know when I made International Women’s Day a personal holiday–probably sometime in college. Somehow I don’t need reminding of the significance of March 8th when it comes around. The date leaps out and says, “Remember!” The day I … Continue reading →

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Writing Short

Posted on March 6, 2012 by

The shortest story ever written is credited to Ernest Hemingway and goes, “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.” I found the “True Stories Well Told” equivalent in the classified section of the Ironwood Daily Globe on March 3rd. Ironwood is … Continue reading →

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Goodbye, Davy Jones

Posted on March 2, 2012 by

Beatles or Monkees? It’s a generational shibboleth. I was born in 1956–the dividing year for Baby Boomerhood. That was the year that, according to the demographers, the Leading Edge (1946-55) yielded to the Trailing Edge (1956-65.) Since I was born … Continue reading →

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The Crack-Up

Posted on December 30, 2011 by

By Sarah White To clarify a story point, you need to know that my parents called me Betsy, a nickname for my middle name Elizabeth. The end for us as a family arrived in late summer 1973 on what would … Continue reading →

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Under the Influence(s)

Posted on December 22, 2011 by

The following story is a slightly-edited excerpt from “The Plunge,” which appeared in the APH Anthology, My Words Are Gonna Linger. -By Sarah White I have been fat for as long as I have been looking up to other people. … Continue reading →

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