On a Roll with Katie and Disablity Pride Month
July is Disability Pride Month and USA Today appropriately had an article called “10 inspiring self-help books about illness and disability.” It’s impossible for people without difficult, chronic...
View ArticleMy Crazy Trip to Japan Travel Memoir
I did it! After 7 years I finally put together my notes, memories, and photos and published a family-only little travel memoir of the October 2015 first-time trip to Japan I took with my sister and our...
View ArticleThe Strength of Water: An Asian American memoir of challenges and persistence
I loved reading an advance copy of The Strength of Water, a memoir of King Ying “Helen” Yee by her daughter Karin Jensen. Karin’s mother, like mine, told stories that Karin, like me, eventually decided...
View ArticleIntergenerational Child Abuse: Life writing to understand the past–and try...
Part of why I encourage life writing is because the past certainly does affect the future, as I discovered with my own mother. Knowing the past of our parents and grandparents helps current generations...
View ArticleLove Letter for a Japanese War Bride memoir
What a delightful story! Just finished reading this beautiful memoir (not letters) of U.S. Navy man Stephen whose life was changed when he met a Japanese girl while stationed in Japan during the 1950s....
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