by Sandy Frykholm | Apr 17, 2020 | Memoirs, Uncategorized
Memoir mine: Creating your memoir experience Can you create your own memoir experience? Millions of readers shared the experience of Frances Mayes as she fell in love with Italian food and rebuilt a rundown Italian farmhouse. Under the Tuscan Sun, her memoir, topped...
by Sandy Frykholm | Apr 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
The memoir mine: Social and cultural issues All of us grew up somewhere. That somewhere included a social and cultural setting. For me, the tiny berg of Moose Pass, Alaska deeply influenced my first dozen years. Insular, yet inherently limiting, Moose Pass was home...
by Sandy Frykholm | Apr 3, 2020 | Uncategorized
The memoir mine: family history Every three or four years my sister and I take a family history trip together. We’ve visited the tiny Idaho town where our dad was born, and met a woman who knew his grandparents. In England we tramped through dozens of...
by Sandy Frykholm | Mar 27, 2020 | Uncategorized
A Harvard study published last year in the journal Science concluded what many have long assumed to be true: music is universal. Every society uses music, and it may inspire us to dance, worship, relax, or cry. But how can it inspire us to write? I turned to...
by Sandy Frykholm | Mar 20, 2020 | Uncategorized
Image from Canva.com Artists of all kinds find inspiration in the natural world. They include painters like Van Gogh, photographers like Ansel Adams (and many since), and writers of poetry, essays, fiction, and more. An Esquire article last year claims we are living...
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