I am listening to the third episode as I write this, which is to say: I thought this podcast was some really good storytelling and I guess in this reflection I’ll try to put my finger on why. I loved…

I like when we get alternate forms of memoir/biography “reading,” aka podcasts for this week as it allows me to consider how each form can enhance or emphasize different aspects of storytelling. I was thinking a lot this week about…

I don’t know how to relate to my father. Funny that when prompted with “what do you want people to know?” I answer in deficit. This concavity feels fitting to my subject, who I suppose is my mother in a…

“It’s my version of things…It’s what I saw and felt; it’s not the whole story. But I think I have a right to tell it.” I am both a firm believer of Maia when she writes this in her article…

When we read this for Bridgett’s class last year and re-reading it again now, I am struck by Bridgett’s ability to weave history and memoir–grounding the piece in time and making it seem larger than just a story of herself…

My book project is something on daughterhood, working on new language and ways to understand myself (and maybe for others to understand themselves) in a family not always in relation to mothers; or, if we were once daughters to our…