No matter what class I teach or talk I give, the question always comes up, “How do I write about people in my family?” On... Read More

Yesterday, I went to the memorial service for a gentleman who had been in my Orlando writing classes years ago. His name was Al Pfeiffer,... Read More

Whenever I tell someone I help people write their life stories and family histories, they always say: “That’s so interesting. How did you end up... Read More

Florida is weird. I’ve lived in Orlando just about as long as I lived in South Louisiana, so I feel entitled to tell the truth... Read More

The memoir I want to share with you this week is Heart in the Right Place by Carolyn Jourdan. I enjoy passing on books I... Read More

Lessons in Letting Go, Part Two Follow this link to read last week's Sunday Story, Lessons in Letting Go, Part One. One hotel chain has... Read More

How do you write the hard things, the emotions you’d rather avoid? Today, we’ll try our hand at it together. From an unlikely source, we... Read More

Recently, I had two lessons in letting go. The first involved the Costa Rica writing retreat I had scheduled in…

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When drafting a story, does it bug you to no end to see a typo or the wrong word in the paragraph you just finished?

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Last week, I began the story of meeting one of my literary heroes, Jeannette Walls, author of “The Glass Castle” and “Half Broke Horses.”

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