Renowned choreographer, Twyla Tharp endorses the importance of establishing creative habits. Bancroft Manor is a virtual workspace for artists and writers alike. It offers a safe haven where creativity flourishes. An extension of the Soul Food Cafe Bancroft Manor provides a… Read More ›
Month: August 2019
A Memory Museum
Museums today are more than familiar cultural institutions and showplaces of accumulated objects; they are the sites of interaction between personal and collective identities, between memory and history. Susan Crane “I created this small museum to remember them, so people… Read More ›
Objects Tell Micro-Stories and Biographies
“They are objects of everyday life in the female world and are extraordinary because they tell micro-stories and biographies of the inhabitants of the city who tried to escape the eruption,” said Pompeii’s general director, Massimo Osanna, in a statement…. Read More ›
Gathering Lived Experience Narratives
Len runs a small coffee house and offers a range of eclectic collectables in a historic building in a small Central Victorian town. When I called in for coffee we talked about the writing courses that I offer and he invited… Read More ›
Establish a Memory Palace
It has become popular for people wanting to enhance their memory to learn how to create memory palaces. Sites like Insanity Mind Upgrade Your Brain explain that basically, a memory palace is a mental structure that can help you memorize anything in… Read More ›
Memoir Mapping
One of life’s great treats, for a lover of books (especially fantasy books), is to open a cover to find a map secreted inside and filled with the details of a land about to be discovered. A writer’s map hints… Read More ›
Remembering Beloved Toys
On the wings of the black crow come the spirits of old, treasured, discarded, lost, forgotten, dearly beloved toys who have made a significant contribution to our lives. Teddy I was twelve as I recall, old enough to leave… Read More ›
Cook Up A Memoir
Whether we loved or hated family dinners, they were an important part of childhood. Some of us ate food made from recipes handed down from generation to generation. Others of us ate dinners in which the secret recipes came off… Read More ›
Parting Gifts
Dear Heather I would like to be remembered for looking after my grandma. These are some of the things that I do for her. I get my grandma tea. I massage her back, I put cream on her legs and… Read More ›
Unbottling the Heart – Expressing Difficult Emotions
“Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down.” E. B. White. “I do not believe that I have ever written a children’s book,” Maurice Sendak “Creative fantasy, because it is… Read More ›
