Archive for 'Taking Courses, Worshops, Conferences'
Memoir Clusters: A Guest Blog Post
Today’s guest blogger is writer and editor Lanie Tankard who is a long-time friend. My husband Stuart enjoys taking credit for Lanie’s romance and marriage to Jim Tankard, a professor of journalism at the University of Texas at Austin, because Stuart suggested that Lanie contact Jim about a summer program–back in 1972.
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Posted: April 1st, 2009 under Memoir Workshops, Taking Courses, Worshops, Conferences.
Tags: Jim Tankard, Lanie Tankard, Memoir clusters
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Writing Down the Bones: Slow and Dumb
I remember reading this breakthrough book soon after it was published in the late 1980’s. I don’t remember how I bought the book, and I don’t have the old copy on my shelf, so I may have loaned or given it away, Mostly, I remember how I felt after reading it. High! I had never [...]
Posted: February 5th, 2009 under Books About Memoir, Memoir Workshops, My Reviews, Personal Reflections, Taking Courses, Worshops, Conferences.
Tags: dumb, fast, memoir, memoy, mind, Natalie Goldberg, slow, smart, timed writing
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Natalie Goldberg: Memoir Workshop at the Sophia Institute
Last weekend I enjoyed sunshine, warm air, a beautiful room in the carriage house of the Phoebe Pember House affiliated with the Sophia Institute, a long walk in historic Charleston, a wonderful memoir workshop, and delightful conversation with Natalie Goldberg, the workshop leader, at the Slightly North of Broad Restaurant. Here she is, on the [...]
Posted: January 28th, 2009 under Memoir Workshops, Taking Courses, Worshops, Conferences.
Tags: listening, meditation, Natalie Goldberg, recall, timed writing, writing practice
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