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The Summer of Love
During the famed Summer of Love—1967—I was an almost-teen, just twelve years old. That summer, my mother, little brother and I toured the U.S. in a one-engine plane. I remember arriving at Niagara...
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The Sixties—1960-63 in a Small Town
When I think back to when the sixties began, time telescopes so far back it’s hard to remember it. I was fifteen in 1960, living in a medium-sized Oklahoma town where conformity, strict Christian...
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A Cultish Encounter: Visalia, CA 1974
by guest blogger: Elaine Webster Elaine, circa 1974 My husband, Blake, and I pulled up to the curb to find a dozen or so longhaired men, women, and children, most in white robes, perched on our front...
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Stripped Hog
Stripped Hog: 60s Oakland Hill Climbs It was a chilly fall day in 1964, on a bare hillside above Oakland. A swarm of bikers wearing black leather jackets throttled their deep-throated Harley-Davidsons...
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Boy, Were Those Times A’Changin’
If you were in a time capsule and dropped into the edge of the fifties as they shifted into the sixties, you would see that in the early sixties we were still in the haze of bubble hairdos, tailored...
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Times Anthology: The Conception
Imagine the three of us sitting at a table under a 700-year-old spreading oak. Linda Joy is enjoying a glass of red wine with her pasta, I’m drinking white, and Kate a refreshing glass of sparkling...
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Back to the Future
Golden Memories It was exactly a year ago that Linda Joy Myers and I were chatting after a California Writers Club meeting. When Linda Joy first mentioned the idea of a collection of personal...
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A Political Race to Remember, 1960
John F. Kennedy, West Virginia, 1960 With the deluge of ads, mailings, and robo calls this month, I began thinking about presidential elections, past and present. I suddenly recalled one of the most...
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Women’s Memoirs Video Interview
Womens Memoirs If you’d like more information about the anthology, watch this lively video interview from Matilda Butler of Womens’ Memoirs Blog with Linda Joy Myers. Click here to watch. Matilda...
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Why We Write about the 60s & 70s
Elise Frances Miller by Elise Frances Miller, Author of A Time to Cast Away Stones When I first glanced at the Facebook page for Times They Were A-Changing: Women Remember the 60s & 70s, a little...
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Weaving the Memories of the 60s & 70s: Social & Personal
The Roundtable Discussion on Thursday, December 6, 2012, with National Association of Memoir Writers,“Memoir as Social Legacy” with Linda Joy Myers and Amber Starfire stimulated my memories of the era....
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Writing Down the Action
By Kate Farrell As the deadline for the Contest and Call for Submissions quickly approaches, January 15, 2013, I took a challenge to write a brand new short “memoirette” of 2500 words that fit our...
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How to Polish Your Story, Part 1
This is part 1 of a 2-part article on how to make your story shine. - You’ve worked hard, spent hours writing your story. Now the January 15th deadline is approaching, and you’re preparing to send it...
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How Exposed Are You in Your Memoir Stories?
Is writing the truth like taking off your clothes in front of everyone? How raw, exposed, and vulnerable are you in your writing? According to Susan Shapiro, author of this NY Times article, Make Me...
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A Second in Time: 1965
Sometimes in writing a short memoir, selecting just one memorable scene might be enough. Bring it to life with vivid, sensory detail and then relive it yourself. You may then learn what that singular...
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Thoughts on Writing and Life
by Joan Annsfire Winner of Poetry First Honorable Mention tells of her motivation to write. Joan Annsfire Almost all of the writing I read growing up was by and about the straight, white,...
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Writing My Highs and Lows
Venus Maher By Venus Maher Winner of Prose Third Honorable Mention tells how she wrote both the light and dark of her world as a child of a radical hippie mother. The tale of “Tripping On High” began...
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Reflections on “The Trip”
Lucille Lang Day, 1970 by Lucille Lang Day Winner of Prose First Honorable Mention tells of the keys to open our memories and our minds. Many years before documenting my 1971 mescaline experience in my...
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When The Revolution Hits Home
Telegraph Ave, May, 1969 Second Place Prose Winner, Elise Frances Miller, shares her successful writing process for memoir. A year ago, while flipping through photo albums from my student days,...
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Poetry: My Ticket to Dance
Jasmine Belén, 1972 Jasmine Belén, Winner of Second Honorable Mention Poetry, shares her love of poetry in both mystical and technical terms. Blog post written by Jasmine Belén: Recently after I...
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