Post #130 – Women’s Memoirs, ScrapMoir – Matilda Butler and Kendra Bonnett
Congratulations to Our Next Memoir Writing Contest Winner
Last week, we published the first of three Honorable Mentions in our May Memoir Writing Contest that featured the topic of mothers. This week, we extend our congratulations to Kathe Campbell for her special story in the MOTHERS AND MOTHERING category.
Congratulations Kathe on your award-winning memoir vignette.
Deviled Egg Diaries
By Kathe Campbell
Though America was plunged in the Great Depression of the early 30’s, a flair for humor, and her perpetual humming of lovely tunes defined my mother. She loved telling friends and family how home-made bottles of aged, homemade prohibition beer blew to kingdom come from their basement confines just as the preacher came calling. Neither Mom nor Dad were spring chickens, and the pastor wanted to offer good wishes for the impending adoption of their first child — me. Being a part of their fun-loving and idyllic union left lasting impressions of how all marriages should be, for their pattern shaped my future. [click to continue…]
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