Post #93 – Women’s Memoir Writing, ScrapMoir – Matilda Butler and Kendra Bonnett
Women’s Memoirs is pleased to present the third winner in our May memoir contest – ALL ABOUT MOTHERS. Earlier today we published the two first place winners in our Mother’s Day category. Below, we are pleased to publish the first of another pair of winning entries in our Mothers and Mothering category.
Kathleen Hewitt’s story, Because of You, takes a tie for first place in our Mothers and Mothering category. This is a warm and touching story about love, understanding, and mothering a mother.
Later today, we’ll publish the remaining winning memoir entry in the Mothers and Mothering category. Be sure to check back later this afternoon for that story.
BECAUSE OF YOU
by Kathleen Hewitt
The youngest of seven children, my mother was the baby no one had time for. The death of the oldest sibling in her family, the pilot shot down in World War II, had left my mother’s mother in a permanent state of silent mourning. Pasty, half dead, Nana hardly moved in her rocking chair facing the window, feeling nothing, in her worn apron. [click to continue…]
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