Author Archives: first person productions
Dream big… dream in Italian!
A couple of days ago I received an email from my friend Cathy Fleming about the latest trips her travel company Viaggi di Gusto is offering. She dreamed big when she created the idea for this business, and I’m dreaming … Continue reading
Book review: Handling the Truth: On the Writing of Memoir
Don’t you hate books on how to write by professors who get to enjoy year after year of the attention of an ever-changing parade of young faces, upturned to receive their wisdom like flowers drinking rain? Okay, maybe you don’t. … Continue reading
Leon Varjian and Me: Class Clowns
By Sarah White I wrote this essay in response to the theme “I was/wasn’t a joiner…” which I assigned my Fitchburg writing class in Spring 2008. I instructed the writers to “focus on action and its repercussions.” In late August 1974 … Continue reading
The Pink and the Muddy
By Sarah White Hurricane Katrina was the deadliest and most destructive Atlantic tropical cyclone of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. It was the costliest natural disaster, as well as one of the five deadliest hurricanes, in the history of the … Continue reading
Beat by Unlikely Beat
By Kalyanii I arrived for the drum circle at Kenosha’s Harbor Market with plenty of time to spare. Having stayed with a friend in Lake Geneva the night before, the drive was short; and, after struggling mightily for months in … Continue reading
Today is Women’s Equality Day
By Seth Kahan Passed by Congress June 4, 1919, and ratified on August 18, 1920, the 19th amendment guarantees all American women the right to vote. The federal government proclaimed the amendment incorporated into the Constitution on August 26, 1920. … Continue reading
Cool Jews
By Ann Imig Tis the season for summer camp forms. After filling out two blue books worth of information and medical history on my first grader, and after paying a year’s writer salary (okay five), he will spend three weeks … Continue reading
Fall 2013 Workshops and More!
Something new for memoir writers in the Madison area! I am shifting the focus of my multi-session workshops to beginning memoirists. Participants will be welcome to repeat the workshop up to three times, then “graduate” to a monthly salon open to Madison-area … Continue reading
Thoughts on “The Courage to Write: How Writers Transcend Fear”
By Nancy Eberle Ralph Keyes has been peeping in my windows. At least that’s how it felt as I made my way through his book The Courage to Write: How Writers Transcend Fear earlier this summer. Keyes’ book is a … Continue reading
True Stories Well Told 
Quick advice on how to write & what to write about…
A couple of gems for memoir writers turned up in recent articles in the New York Times. When you want a reminder of how much power a short sentence can pack, remember this line from George Orwell’s Animal House–“He carried … Continue reading →