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Category Archives: Sarah’s memoir
Menarche Goddam
By Sarah White This is part one of a two-part series on a topic we don’t talk about. (Click here to read part two.) The word “menarche” comes from Greek and Latin roots meaning “month” and “beginning.” According to Wikipedia, … Continue reading
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A Pizza Expert Can Always Improve
By Sarah White To download Bruno’s pizza recipe, see link at end of story. About travel, T.S. Eliot famously wrote, “We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started … Continue reading
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The Ravine House
By Sarah White For the first assignment in my Creative Writing class this summer, I challenged my students to write a “portal story.” This is a story about the first time your protagonist reaches the place on the other side … Continue reading
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Notes from the Fourth Lake Writing Weekend
Why would someone like me—a writing teacher, MFA holder in Creative Nonfiction, and professional writer of more than 25 years—sign up for a weekend writing workshop? Because sometimes, even the most practiced hands need to put the client work down, … Continue reading
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A Two-Week Immersion in Language, Culture, and Lifelong Curiosity
I had my first immersion in Italian culture when I traveled with Rotary International’s Group Study Exchange program in Spring 1991. Because of the intensity of that experience, (which I wrote about here), my language acquisition was rapid. However, it ran … Continue reading
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The Babyfoot Ball
By Sarah White Lately I’ve been writing about small events in the past that continue to baffle me–moments when I didn’t understand what was happening, tried over time to untangle, and never arrived at a satisfying conclusion. This is one … Continue reading
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Bible Study
By Sarah White Jim turned to me as we watched a TV news bit about an Episcopalian priest being charged or exonerated or I didn’t catch what, by the Archbishop of Canterbury. “Was there a priest abuse crisis in the … Continue reading
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The Cow in the Room: An Author’s Place in the Publishing Industry
By Sarah White I originally wrote this piece in 2006. I’m dusting it off & publishing it now because I will soon announce big publishing news for yours truly. I am somewhat more sanguine about the book publishing industry today, … Continue reading
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Cheers! Madison, or Preaching to the Choir
By Sarah White A friend and I have been talking about our mutual interest in getting singing back into our lives. She’s tried one local community choir and heard about another just launching into its summer cycle. It would meet … Continue reading
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Friend Trouble
By Sarah White This is the second post in a short series that began with a review of the book Family Trouble: Memoirists on the Hazards and Rewards of Revealing Family. In this post, I share an experience with “the … Continue reading →