Wisdom Has a Voice: Daughters Remember Mothers

Editing the Wisdom Has a Voice anthology was an extraordinary experience for me. On June 7th I get the chance to talk about it.  Linda Joy Myers, founder of National Association of Memoir Writers, will lead our conversation in a Roundtable Discussion. To participate and listen in, visit the NAMW web

By Angela Tung, author of “Puo-puo” in Wisdom Has a Voice: Every Daughter’s Memories of Mother “Women, show your fiction to your mothers, not your lovers.” Mary Gordon “Don’t tell outsiders the ugly things that happened at home.” Chinese idiom When I set out to write “Puo-puo,” an elegy to my grandm

By Pat Jackson-Colando, author of “A Kiss and a Hug” in Wisdom Has a Voice: Every Daughter’s Memories of Mother In 1992 I participated in the initial Race for the Cure in Orange County, California. It was the 10th anniversary of the founding of the Susan G. Komen Foundation and little more than a ye

By Nancy LaTurner, author of “Motherless Child” in Wisdom Has a Voice: Every Daughter’s Memories of Mother Katrina Norfleet’s earlier blog post “Uncovering what’s Universal,” (November 7, 2011) struck a harmonious chord in me. The mother-daughter-mother triangle rings true in my life too. My mother

By Mariana Swann, author of “Finding You Again in Bolivia” in Wisdom Has a Voice: Every Daughter’s Memories of Mother In January last year, while shopping at my local supermarket in Wokingham, England, I saw a tiny little advert on a writing magazine asking for contributions to an anthology of stori

Story Circle Network This January I am thrilled to teach an online course as faculty of Story Circle Network. SCN has been a pioneer women’s literary network for 15 years. Based in Austin, Texas, it now has an international outreach. In brief, the Story Circle Network offers the only life-writing pr