memoir – Page 2 – Writing and Photography

Perfection

Today I’m sharing two pieces about the way my father pushed me to be perfect as a child. Report Card

Here is (perhaps) the last piece in this series. 6 – Bad Guys

Here are two more pieces in the series. They focus on the extent to which I lost my way as

We still don’t understand why my mother was so sick for so many years. Was she suffering from mental illness?

This piece is about the glue that holds a family together and what happens when that glue is lost. Clan

This piece is about the way that pain inflicted on one generation can carry through to the next one. Tom

My mother encourages me to step over the line between girlhood and womanhood… Tomatoes

As the oldest of six children, I was my mother’s “second in command.” I folded laundry, dusted and vacuumed, changed

Happy memories from when I was about ten years old. After School

When I was growing up, my parents went out on a date together every Friday night. During my younger years,