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How Memoir Saved My Life | jennifer ochstein
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Writing from the tender field. Prologue excerpt: →. How Memoir Saved My Life. July 11, 2013. In case you missed it the first time when it was posted at. On July 3, here is my article about my mother, memoir and the power of writing to heal:. Anger had settled into my very bones. Her vulnerability as a closeted lesbian exposed me to a wider world that seemed too opposed to us as a family and everything she was a single, chronically ill, lesbian mother. By Alysia Abbott and The Scientists: A Family Romance.
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Writing from the tender field. Newer posts →. Lenten Series #2: I’ll Know More By Easter. March 7, 2015. I’ll just say it. God, I miss meat. I’m a few weeks into my Lenten commitment to abstain from meat for 40 miserable days, and I can’t bear the piety any longer. I miss meat. Oh Jesus. I miss meat. I miss it so much right now that I think I could write a poem, an ode, a sweet hymn to the comfort I would have in just one single bite. Ah Buffalo sauce. It is good. 8220;Do you know what I just did? It was...
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Writing from the tender field. Lenten Series #3: I’ll Know More By Easter. March 10, 2015. In the spirit of Lenten confession, I’ve written an essay entitled “Family Berserk: A Lenten Confession” that can be found at. Click the link to check it out),. A journal of faith, art and culture, sponsored by Valparaiso University. Lenten Series #3: I’ll Know More By Easter. Lenten Series #2: I’ll Know More By Easter. Lenten Series #1: I’ll Know More By Easter. The Writer’s Enemy. Another Case for the Memoir.
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Another Case for the Memoir | jennifer ochstein
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Writing from the tender field. How Did I Get Here? The Writer’s Enemy →. Another Case for the Memoir. September 3, 2014. In case you missed it when it ran at. Here is my August 16 article:. Scrolling Facebook the other day, as I often do, I came across an announcement from U.K. based magazine MSLEXIA. But, the decision to write it? That should never be in question. This entry was posted in Hothouse articles. And tagged Emily Deprang. How Did I Get Here? The Writer’s Enemy →. Leave a Reply Cancel reply.
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September | 2014 | jennifer ochstein
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Writing from the tender field. Monthly Archives: September 2014. Another Case for the Memoir. September 3, 2014. In case you missed it when it ran at. Here is my August 16 article:. Scrolling Facebook the other day, as I often do, I came across an announcement from U.K. based magazine MSLEXIA. But, the decision to write it? That should never be in question. Lenten Series #3: I’ll Know More By Easter. Lenten Series #2: I’ll Know More By Easter. Lenten Series #1: I’ll Know More By Easter. On AWP or Bust.
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AWP or Bust | jennifer ochstein
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Writing from the tender field. When Everyone Is Really No One. Naked Art →. February 25, 2014. This week I’m traveling to my first ever AWP Conference, held in Seattle this year. Has given me a lifetime of writerly wisdom. It is the book I turn to when I need to read brilliant writing and insight before I begin my own sojourns into the essay. I promise not to slobber.). To my humiliation, I’m even occasionally rude. Now, I try to avoid gigantic writers. I can’t be trusted with them. I’ve also read the bl...
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April | 2014 | jennifer ochstein
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Writing from the tender field. Monthly Archives: April 2014. April 28, 2014. In case you missed it the first time, here’s my last article from. The Festival of Faith and Writing. The community is open-handed rather than tight-fisted, reminding me of the kinship I see depicted in the sacred scriptures I hold dear. Featured writer, Anne Lamott. Other voices of peace and reconciliation included James McBride. Author of an ethnographic play called Doin’ Time: Through the Visiting Glass, about the shame famil...
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March | 2014 | jennifer ochstein
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Writing from the tender field. Monthly Archives: March 2014. March 25, 2014. In case you missed it the first time, here is my piece from the March 15 Hothouse Magazine Arts section:. Of wrongdoing or rightdoing,. There is a field. I’ll meet you there. Look up Karen Ann Myers’s. A friend of mine recently turned me on to Myers’s work after she saw an exhibition at the Greenville County Museum of Art. During which writer Dinah Lenney said that writing in this particular genre creative nonfiction requires th...
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Lenten Series #1: I’ll Know More By Easter | jennifer ochstein
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Writing from the tender field. The Writer’s Enemy. Lenten Series #2: I’ll Know More By Easter →. Lenten Series #1: I’ll Know More By Easter. February 20, 2015. I’m not sure what my motivations are, but maybe that will become clear by the time Easter rolls around. That is what has led me to write this Lenten series, which will simply be brief, mostly weekly-ish reflections of my experiences of Lent and fasting as a newcomer to recognition of the church year. In the “Litany of Penitence” in the. You are co...
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