Behold the egg! Smooth, rounded, perfectly formed, fragile, its glowing center suspended in a malleable, translucent penumbra. The same might be said of these thirty-five memoirs in which the past--formed at the fragile nexus, the malleable boundary of memory and imagination--is suspended in prose, contained in an essay. You have but to crack open this book.
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From the memoirs...
She smelled good, and I liked that she had William Carlos Williams tucked under her arm.
 A Sailboat Named Desire │ Lula Flann
In the midst of this happy, almost unbelievable reunion, I could not help wondering if Miss Towner had flashback memories to World War I in Adana, Turkey, and the American school sheltering Armenian children from the Turks.
 An Incredible Reunion │ Peggy Kalpakian Johnson
So much depends on the tools. A worker without tools is like a myth without a ritual.
 The Mason - Jack Remick

So Much Depends Upon...: An Anthology

Biographies & Memoirs

Writers, Red Wheelbarrow

Memoirs

Sidekick Press

Red Wheelbarrow Writers are a loose affiliation of lively artists based in Bellingham, Washington. As a community, we host a monthly Happy Hour and a monthly Writerly Book Club. We are co-founders of Washington memoir Month. We offer classes, contests, novel writing events, bookstore readings, poetry projects, and parties. Red Wheelbarrow Writers are individually productive, and as a group, we support, encourage and learn from one another. Memory into Memoir is our first anthology.

Memory into Memoir: An Anthology (2016)

Literature & Fiction

Literary

When his small Honda is rear-ended by a much larger vehicle (traveling at 55 miles per hour), the Honda is demolished and while the small car's owner manages to walk away, he suffers extensive brain injury. His struggle to regain memory, sense of smell, vision without the aide of dark glasses, life without headaches, and the ability to cry, lasts several years. In that time the author of A Quest for Tears joins a large group of people also suffering from traumatic brain injury as they move together through a long and painful struggle to regain life "before" the loss of tears.

A Quest for Tears: Surviving Traumatic Brain Injury

Dwyer, Sean

Community & Culture

Eighty-six-year-old Mattie Snorgenson has had enough! She's spent most of her life caring for family and fitting into polite society. Now, she is ready to follow her dream. Inspired by Mattie's courage, four other senior women join her in escaping the boredom of life in their retirement home. Together they travel the world, each seeking to fulfill the one, secret desire she has always held.
With help from a pierced, tattooed and dreadlocked granddaughter, the friends journey from Florida to the Emerald Isle, and from Tasmania to the markets of Egypt. When their story goes viral, surfers, hitchhikers, priests and a Crocodile Dundee impersonator pitch in to help the “outrageous grannies.” Even Doctor Phil gets into the act.
The ladies must outsmart relatives who seek to return them to “senior living,” and conmen who see them as easy targets. And, each must face her own frailties and mortality. Finally, forced to choose between the security of home and the danger of continuing their quest, ringleader Mattie is challenged with the most important decision of her life.
 In its subtext and its spine, this novel is about the ultimate act of liberation.
 Jack Remick, author of The Trio of Lost Souls
 A delightful, poignant, later-in-life coming of age story.
 Elizabeth Engstrom, author of Benediction Denied

The Last Outrageous Woman

Stone, Jessica H

Women's Fiction

What Do I Know?: Wisdom Essays

The essays in this book center around the questions of love, wisdom and knowledge through time. What is love in the twenty-first century? Is there a wisdom to marriage? Are our bodies "naturally wise"? What is the nature of orgasm? The meaning of sex? The author uses examples from ancient authors such as Pascal, Marcus Aurelius, and Descartes to clarify the issue of the decay of wisdom and the relation of nature to science, while at the same time drawing on present-time social and cultural mores to ask the enigmatic question-Is there such a thing as "stupid wisdom"? This is not a how-to book on becoming wise, but an interrogation of human wisdom in the Anthropocene. Will the "speaking word-ape" destroy itself as well as the environment it lives in? The Maya word for writer is ah tz'ib. It is comforting to know that the craft has a past written in stone. As I write words on paper that are then digitized, I am confronted with the reality of impermanence. When electricity dies, my words will vanish and there will be no nuance of this ah tz'ib left. But the brethren of the rock will exist until there is no more stone.

Remick, Jack

Essays & Correspondence

The essays in this book center around the questions of love, wisdom, and knowledge through time. What is love in the twenty-first century? Is there a wisdom to marriage? Are our bodies "naturally wise"? What is the nature of orgasm? The meaning of sex? The author uses examples from ancient authors such as Pascal, Marcus Aurelius, and Descartes to clarify the issue of the decay of wisdom and the relation of nature to science, while at the same time drawing on present-time social and cultural mores to ask the enigmatic question-Is there such a thing as "stupid wisdom"? This is not a how-to book on becoming wise, but an interrogation of human wisdom in the Anthropocene. Will the "speaking word-ape" destroy itself as well as the environment it lives in?\n﻿The Maya word for writer is ah tz'ib. 
It is comforting to know that the craft has a past written in stone. As I write words on paper that are then digitized, I am confronted with the reality of impermanence. When electricity dies, my words will vanish and there will be no nuance of this ah tz'ib left. But the brethren of the rock will exist until there is no more stone.

Written by participants of Cami Ostman's Seattle-based Narrative Project. Participants attend a nine-month course in intense instruction, coaching, and fellowship. The Narrative Projects produces an anthology every two years. Participants come from all parts of the world.

True Stories: The Narrative Project Volume I

What does a writer need in order to write a book? What does it take to turn yourself into an author? Well, first of all you need to believe that your story is meaningful and deserves to take up space in your life and on a bookshelf one day.

True Stories: The Narrative Project Volume II

Holed up in a little churchhouse during a terrible blizzard that shuts down Vinegar Valley, Preacher Ed Monroe and his disreputable daughter, Celia Monroe, find themselves at odds over conflicting belief systems. As they take precautions to survive the storm, the preacher secretly makes a plan that will irreparably undermine Celia's life. Meanwhile, Star, Celia's dead twin, intervenes from beyond the grave, helping Celia recall a destructive family secret. Through a set of circumstances that alter Celia's beliefs that she's as dark and tangled as lily roots, a certainty she's held tightly to since she was a young girl, Celia begins to see her own purity again. Celia's Heaven explores the difference between those who profess righteousness and those who live life from their true nature, spinning a paranormal tale of redemption and self-love.

Celia's Heaven

Canyon, Nancy

Genre Fiction

The chronicle of a Nebraska farm girl who defiantly joined the Peace Corps in 1971, and went to serve as a nurse in up-country Liberia. These early adventures fueled a life-ong commitment to service and a thirst for travel and adventure.

In Search of Pink Flamingos: A Woman's Quest for Forgiveness and Unconditional Love

Travel

Greisen, Susan E.

Africa

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So Much Depends Upon...: An Anthology

Memory into Memoir: An Anthology (2016)

A Quest for Tears: Surviving Traumatic Brain Injury

The Last Outrageous Woman

What Do I Know?: Wisdom Essays

What Do I Know?: Wisdom Essays

True Stories: The Narrative Project Volume I

True Stories: The Narrative Project Volume II

Celia's Heaven

In Search of Pink Flamingos: A Woman's Quest for Forgiveness and Unconditional Love