#JoanDidion's #TheYearOfMagicalThinking is such a gift for those who mourn, who understand so deeply what she means when she writes, "I look for resolution and find none." If #grief is a frequent companion, read (or reread) her #memoir and know you are not alone.
#JohnsHopkins UP is offering a 30% discount w/the code HMOR24 on all its books, including mine, Finding the Right Words: A Story of #Literature, #Grief, and the #Brain, the #memoir I wrote w/#neurologist Dr. Bruce Miller. If you click on the book link & then click on the figures link, you'll see images of the brain that might be helpful. The glossary also includes terms that are good to know when going to the #doctor. Bruce & I hope you find it helpful.
In her new book ‘Wild Ride’, an American journalist details her life in China as the one-party state opened to the world, then regressed back to an oppressive, inward-looking regime.
Share in the joyful, adventure-filled shenanigans of a child growing up in a small mud hut in Inner Mongolia in this charming, illustrated memoir for young middle grade readers.
“MEKONG DELTA BLUESMAN” Son Vo tells the story of his life both offstage and on. From an early childhood in Saigon to a hardscrabble life in Maine to discovering his gift for music, Vo relates some wild adventures in a voice full of warmth and hope. B PLUS
Here is a chart in my #memoir about my father's early-onset #Alzheimer's, written with #neurologist Dr. Bruce Miller, detailing the different kinds of #aphasia, where the "assault," as #doctors call it, first starts in the #brain, and the #diagnosis.
A moving, beautifully illustrated true story for children ages 6 to 9 about growing up in Japanese American incarceration camps during World War II—from the iconic Star Trek actor, activist, and author of the New York Times bestselling graphic memoir They Called Us Enemy.
ADRIFT IN A NEARLY DESERTED VENICE in the early months of the 2020 pandemic, a writer contemplates his native Nigeria, his life in Detroit, his love of travel, but most of all his complicated family. Beautifully crafted prose, distinctive story. B PLUS
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Frank Zappa’s daughter’s new memoir examines the difficulties of “growing up an inimitable icon’s daughter”
Moon Unit Zappa, daughter of Frank Zappa, has written an “astonishingly frank” memoir about her experiences growing up as an “inimitable icon’s daughter”.
This is the real story behind the headlines and the soundbites, a complex, page-turning memoir of a scientist, a surfer, a mother, a patriot and an unlikely whistleblower. Ford’s experience shows that when one person steps forward to speak truth to power, she adds to a collective whole, causing "a ripple that might one day become a wave.”
It all happened so suddenly. But these things always do. I had volunteered with a church youth group because I knew how boring small town summers could get for a kid. And now I was to be a guest preacher one Sunday. No notice. No training. Just head up there and see what the Holy Spirit has to say. It went about as well as you might expect. A 20-minute Andy Kaufman meets Jesus bit that was recorded for those would couldn't make it. "The Building Decayeth" is why I've never ran for office with any atheist group. I know that tape will pop up in oppo research.
"The Building Decayeth"
In my teens I volunteered with the Youth Group at Rock Sink Baptist church in the First District area of Old Town, FL. A van traveled unmarked limerock roads picking up kids. During the long pre-Internet summers in rural Florida most were just happy to get out. The usual schedule of touch football and Little Debbies was disrupted with talk of a "Youthquake." The next Sunday service… 4 days away… would be run by us kids. I was selected to be the preacher. Asking for advice on how to prepare I was told that "the Spirit would guide my words…" What followed was 20 minutes of nervous laughter.
Fumbling through the Bible I read Ecclesiastes 10:18 (KJV) "By much slothfulness the building decayeth; and through idleness of the hands the house droppeth through" to a few muted cries of "Amen." This ended my career as a Spirit-filled backwoods preacher. I was never asked to preach again. I did realize that in the future I should probably actually prepare as I was going to speak in public. #writing#poetry#memoir#SouthernGothic#florida
"In Rebel Girl, the punk frontwoman reveals the story of her life — the men who tried to stop her, the women who kept her going and the boy who made her a mother."
When Kathleen Dorothy Blackburn was a child growing up in an evangelical family in Lubbock, Texas, her father, a former air force pilot, was diagnosed with cancer at the age of 38. Her family sought help from preachers, holy men and faith healers but unbeknownst to them, her father had been exposed to high levels of PFAS — as of this month, limited in drinking water by the FDA — on the military sites where he had worked. @TexasObserver has published this extract from Blackburn's memoir, "Loose of Earth," in which she talks about these forever chemicals, how they may have been linked to her father's illness, and a story her grandmother once shared.
”My father was holding an ice cream cone and waving from the other side of the interstate. He looked far away. Something inside her reached for him. The asphalt between them stretched too wide.”
It is an honor to participate in the #Kensington#RedwoodCity Open House for #Caregivers. The event will take place on May 2, and if you are in the neighborhood, please consider coming. My #memoir -- Finding the Right Words -- which I wrote with #UCSF#neurologist Dr. Bruce Miller, will be the departure point for the discussion, which will lay the groundwork for a supportive conversation about #caregiving, #grief, #love, and #dementia.
AN EXPERT ON CARCERAL VIOLENCE and the system’s cruel injustices to poor and minority youth tells the story of a tragedy that happened in his own extended family—the loss of a bright, caring teen to imprisonment and then a gang-related murder. A MINUS