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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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By Sara Etgen-Baker She lowered her reading glasses down to the tip of her nose peering at me with her warm, brown eyes. “Why’s my little Miss Sunshine so down tonight?” Indeed I was moody after Christmas clinging to my grandmother’s side and dogging her every step as she puttered around her house.
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Whenever I think of the holidays, I remember the cookies my mother baked weeks ahead, German springerle anise cookies. These she rolled out with a special rolling pin carved in rectangular images (a tradition centuries old, I later learned). We were never allowed to eat or even sample them as they w
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By Tiah Marie Beautement, Author, “Birds of Promise: A Letter to My Godmother” in Wisdom Has a Voice: Every Daughter’s Memories of Mother I began 1998 in Professor Rosemary Graham’s class, The Art of the Personal Essay, which was based around an anthology of the same name. Sounded rather boring, peo
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by Barbara Toboni, Author, “A Moon Song,” in Wisdom Has a Voice: Every Daughter’s Memories of Mother I knew that writing my story, “A Moon Song,” for the anthology would be a challenge. How could I honor the memory of my mother without feeling the sadness of losing her again? As a
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by Katrina Norfleet, Author, “My Hero,” in the anthology Wisdom Has a Voice: Every Daughter’s Memories of Mother I am a writer paid to develop content that informs and persuades on a daily basis. I have published creative nonfiction work and created a blog intended to encourage and inspire. However,
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