women’s memoirs

Post #32 – Women’s Memoirs, Writing and Healing – Kendra Bonnett and Matilda Butler

Dream Your Way to a Memoir

by Pamela Jane Bell, regular guest blogger, children’s book author and currently writing her memoir

“Dreams are real while we have them; can we say more of life?” –anonymous

My seventeenth year was a nightmare (a waking one!) My parents were in the middle of a bitter divorce, my mother had recently had a nervous breakdown, and my dad was having an affair. Late at night, through the heating vent by my bed, I could hear my father’s angry voice and my mother’s sobs in the downstairs rec room. It was a painful and volatile time but my older brother, who was away at college, kept urging me to keep our parents together and our family intact. I had no idea how I was supposed to accomplish this. Further more, I didn’t want to.

“I’m not interested in all this parent shit,” I wrote back. “I just want to get out of here.” [click to continue…]

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