Tag Archive | history

I Was Named After Renate

(In the story below, Renata Hill is responding to one of my earlier blogs entitled Does Your Name Tell a Story? Hers does. Thank you, Renata, for sharing this story of remembrance here.) I was named for a childhood friend of my mother’s—a lost friend. In the early 1930’s, when my mother was no more […]

Does Your Name Tell a Story?

By Diane Taylor April 2, 2015 4 Comments

I suspect that many people reading these words are toying with the idea of writing a memoir. When it comes to putting it all together, where do you start? If there is something intriguing about your name, that could be a good opening. Names can have much history, even tragedy. Names can lie, hide the truth, […]

Ten Reasons for Writing Memoir

By Diane Taylor March 25, 2015 25 Comments

In my book, The Gift of Memoir, the twenty reasons I give for writing memoir are culled from the forty-two I offer in my course. The more reasons there are, the more apt you are to finish your story. Not that all forty-two, or twenty, will be valid for everyone. Are there three or four […]