Post #56 – Women’s Memoirs, News – Kendra Bonnett and Matilda Butler
[Note: Don’t miss the news about Women's Memoirs all-new, two-day workshop called Lucky Sevens! 7 Steps to Winning Story Structure that Takes the Gamble Out of Your Memoir Writing. You are invited to join Matilda and me in Las Vegas this October to learn about Structural Alchemy to help the memoir writer…this is actually the prelude course to our original Writing Alchemy.
And don’t worry, we’ve kept this affordable. Matilda also reports that there are some incredible airfare deals to be had (as for me, I still drive). Check out our Early-Bird Special that saves you even more (and includes a special bonus) when you register by July 8th.]
I began relating the sad, pathetic saga of my failed gardening adventures over on the Story Circle Network’s “Telling HerStories” blog this morning. You can read all the sordid details by clicking here.
I’m confident, however, that 2011 is going to be different. With grocery store prices soaring, once again I have considered growing a few vegetables. Tomatoes are what I really crave…big, red, soft (but firm), juicy, flavorful ones like my father grew every year. He must have put in more than 30 plants every spring. The payload was rich. All summer long we had tomato salads, and come September my mother would can several dozen jars of quarts of tomatoes for us to enjoy all winter. I don’t think we ever ate a store-bought tomato. [click to continue…]
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