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ScrapMoir How To #16: The Historic You in Scrapbooking and Writing Memoir

by Bettyann SchmidtAugust 12, 2010
ScrapMoir How To #16:  The Historic You in Scrapbooking and Writing Memoir

Bettyann Schmidt returns with an entirely new topic — scrapbooking your reflections on major events. She includes pages she developed after witnessing the destruction from Katrina and other major world events. If you haven’t thought about creating ScrapMoirs — photos and memoir vignettes — with the theme of history unfolding, then her blog will be a treat for you.

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July Memoir Contest Winners Announced; First Place Story Published

by Matilda ButlerAugust 5, 2010
July Memoir Contest Winners Announced; First Place Story Published

Read about the winners of our first-ever TableScraps contest that features the pets in our lives. In addition, we’ve published the first place winning story.

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Memoir Contest Winner: Honorable Mention for Mom’s Winter Noodles by LaTawnia Gray

by Matilda ButlerJuly 29, 2010
Memoir Contest Winner: Honorable Mention for Mom’s Winter Noodles by LaTawnia Gray

Join us in celebrating LaTawnia Gray’s award-winning story, a remembrance of her mother’s homemade noodles that has spanned the years. Come for the story and leave with this wonderful recipe. This is a memoir vignette worth conjuring with.

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ScrapMoir How To #15, Part 4: In Sickness and in Health/Part 4

by Bettyann SchmidtJuly 22, 2010
ScrapMoir How To #15, Part 4: In Sickness and in Health/Part 4

Bettyann Schmidt concludes her personal story of depression in this fourth part.

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Memoir Contest Winner: Honorable Mention for Cookie Confession by C.J. Barbre

by Matilda ButlerJuly 15, 2010
Memoir Contest Winner: Honorable Mention for Cookie Confession by C.J. Barbre

Grandmothers have been important in the lives of many children and never more so than to C.J. Barbre. C.J. shares the memories of her first three years with her grandmother and the later time they spent together. This is a touching story that concludes with her grandmother’s Oatmeal Cookie recipe.

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ScrapMoir How To #15, Part 3: In Sickness and in Health

by Bettyann SchmidtJuly 8, 2010
ScrapMoir How To #15, Part 3: In Sickness and in Health

n Part 3 of her four-part story entitled “In Sickness and in Health” Bettyann Schmidt continues sharing her poignant story of progressive depression. In this segment, the crisis of the narrative, we see the elements making a life seem unbearable.

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Memoir Contest Winner: Honorable Mention for The Bean Pot by Lanie Tankard

by Matilda ButlerJuly 1, 2010
Memoir Contest Winner: Honorable Mention for The Bean Pot by Lanie Tankard

Prepare to smell the scent of cooking apples in the air as you read Lanie Tankard’s evocative story of times spent in the kitchen with her mother, making miniature pies, washing dishes, eating the apple skins. The scents and loving emotions of her childhood remain vivid today. Then enjoy her mother’s recipe for Bean Pot Apples.

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