Beth writes often about her mom, Flo — most recently this past mother’s day. Flo spent that day at a rehabilitation facility, where she has been getting geared up to move into her new assisted living apartment. Flo has yet to make it into her new digs — but she’s working on it. She’s had a series of setbacks, […]

Sharon Kramer is a new writer in the memoir-writing class I lead at the Chicago Cultural Center. I’d intended on using an excerpt from her “One Thing I Didn’t Like About My Mother” essay in my last blog post, but soon realized that to really get the gist, you have to read this wonderful essay […]

What my memoir writers came up with when I asked them to write “One Thing I Didn’t Like About my Mother.”

Hey all, apologies for last Monday without Mike. I took Memorial Day off — in fact, I took the whole week off. I hadn’t had a vacation in, well, I don’t remember and I was getting more squirrelly than normal. So, for me and for all those around me, a little rest and relaxation was in order. […]