Writing down one's memories distills and purifies the very essence of one's experiences. While beginning to write, and while penning your memoirs or writing down memories, you may traverse rocky territory as you determine what to write about, how your perspective may have changed along the years, and how you distinguish between memory and and the remembered. Writing about memories and the past presents the opportunity to look backward and create meaning for today and tomorrow. Remember that the greatest benefit of writing about your past experiences will likely be the memories you preserve for your family and their children and so on down the line. Memoir Hall provides a sharing place for relating your memories and experiences. Below, you will find a brief intro to each posting.
~ Brief Intros to Current Postings ~
Delhi Diary by Johanna McCloy
My family moved to India when I was seven years old. My father worked for an American company, which transferred him to New Delhi to continue his work as a buyer. Our family was American, but we had lived in Madrid since I was three months old, so the only language that I spoke was Spanish.
Before leaving Spain, my parents hastily placed my brother, sister, and me in English classes for the summer, hoping it would improve our ability to blend into New Delhi's international school that fall. My brother and sister were older, so they spoke some English already and seemed to have no problem with this arrangement. Unlike my siblings, however, I rebelled. Read More . . .
"Sex Maniac" by Sonia Pressman Fuentes
(excerpted from Eat First—You Don't Know What They'll Give You, The Adventures of an Immigrant Family and Their Feminist Daughter by Sonia Pressman Fuentes
"Sex Maniac"
In 1965, when I entered the office of Charles T. Duncan, the first general counsel of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (the EEOC), he pointed to the papers strewn across his desk. "You see these papers?" he asked. "Those are all résumés sent in for the one opening I have in the general counsel's office. I don't know why," he continued, looking at me, "but I'm going to hire you." That's how I entered the field of women's rights, which became the focus of my life. Read More . . .
Top of Page Previous Page
|
Putting It Into Words>