Tag Archive | memoirs

An Honest House: A Memoir by Cynthia Reyes

An Honest House is a rich memoir that moves through a ten-year period of Cynthia Reyes’ cynthiasreyes.com life. In the midst of a successful career, family life with children blooming, she and her husband move to an old farmhouse surrounded by gardens they love, just north of Toronto. Against this idyllic backdrop, PTSD strikes. […]

Fifteen Great Memoirs to Read

By Diane Taylor November 18, 2015 10 Comments

Empathy relies on a willingness to step into the shoes of another person and leave our own world behind. We do this when we read memoir. When we understand what moves another, we are taking a giant step towards felling barricades. Barricades of racism, poverty, mental illness, zenophobia and all the other phobias. Indeed, […]

Editing an Arctic Memoir

By Diane Taylor April 24, 2015 6 Comments

(UPDATE! UPDATE! In 2018, Native Born Son was published. It’s wonderful! I highly recommend it. It will give you an authentic feeling for what life was like for some of the Arctic’s first peoples by a man who lived with them, and loved and respected them.) You know how attics can contain hidden treasure? When Marnie Hare […]