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Memoir

Scent & Sensibility: The Passion Flower

Elizabeth Boleman-Herring | Posted 06.11.2013 | Style
Elizabeth Boleman-Herring

It comes as no surprise to me that the Sword-billed Hummingbird, with its immensely elongated bill, has co-evolved with certain passion flowers, such as P. mixta; nor that Yellow Passion Flower pollen is apparently the only pollen eaten by the unusual bee Anthemurgus passiflorae.

WATCH: Wife Of Best-Selling Novelist Admits Husband 'Choreographed An Orgy' In Their Home

HuffPost Live | Posted 06.03.2013 | HuffPost Live 321

Harold Robbins' wife, Grace, joined HuffPost Live recently to discuss her tell-all memoir about her life married to the notoriously hard-partying nove...

Wooden & Me Reads Like Coach & You

Greg Woodburn | Posted 06.02.2013 | Books
Greg Woodburn

In 1987, as a young sports writer and newlywed, my dad met John Wooden while covering a talk Coach gave. A thank-you note from Wooden for the column my dad wrote led to a shared morning walk.

Women's Studies: A Mother's Day Ɖtude

Sonia Taitz | Posted 05.14.2013 | Books
Sonia Taitz

I've always been what they call a "daddy's girl," and proud of it. "Daddy's girl" sounds smart, game, and winning. Daddy's girls know how to wrap ster...

Stephen Pearcy's New Memoir Is Awesome. Period.

Christian Josi | Posted 05.16.2013 | Books
Christian Josi

Rock memoirs are a dime-a-dozen these days, and my expectations of this one were not high. But Pearcy delivers big, and if you like the rock 'n roll debauchery kind of thing, you'll love this thing.

Planting the Seeds of Story in a Future Memoir Writer

Linda Joy Myers, Ph. D. | Posted 04.26.2013 | Fifty
Linda Joy Myers, Ph. D.

Blanche is so old that she knows everything. The heat of the June day rises up from the land. Everything smells like fresh air and earth, black and loamy. The strawberries are ripe, like red buttons beneath green leaves.

Girls Still Just Wanna Have Fun: At 30, Cyndi Lauper's Feminist Anthem Endures

Sheila Moeschen | Posted 06.11.2013 | Women
Sheila Moeschen

Cyndi danced, whirled and crooned a song that was not about boys at all (not primarily at least), but about a girl's right to celebrate her Self. Suddenly, I didn't feel like such a disaster.

Rita Moreno's Arduous Tale

AP | DOUGLASS K. DANIEL | Posted 06.10.2013 | Latino Voices

"Rita Moreno: A Memoir" (Celebra), by Rita Moreno The award-winning actress Rita Moreno opens up – way, way up – in a memoir driven less ...

Mother of Two Special Needs Children Pens Memoir

Gregory G. Allen | Posted 06.05.2013 | Impact
Gregory G. Allen

Any parent with a special needs child would tell you of the joys and challenges of raising that child. Imagine raising two children with special needs as well as two other children. Deborah French has captured that in her powerful memoir A Brief Moment in Time.

What My Mother Gave Me

Elizabeth Benedict | Posted 05.27.2013 | Books
Elizabeth Benedict

In this case, it's a beautiful winter scarf my mother gave me toward the end of her life, probably the last gift I got from her. After she died in 2004, I became more attached to it. The intensity of my feelings about the scarf surprised me.

The Things I Didn't Expect When I Wrote a Memoir

Lori Stevic-Rust, Ph.D. ABPP | Posted 05.26.2013 | Healthy Living
Lori Stevic-Rust, Ph.D. ABPP

In my late-night, self-absorbed worries about what readers would think of me, it did not occur to me that the messages in the stories would resonate with so many. It is a reminder of how connected we all are to each other.

Pamela Olson on Life Inside the Palestinian Territories

Danielle Tumminio | Posted 05.25.2013 | Books
Danielle Tumminio

"When I tried to describe the things I had seen in Israel and Palestine, people in the U.S. tended to assume I was exaggerating, because it didn't match at all with what they were used to hearing on the news. I decided to write something that started from zero and told an engaging story, so that people would 'hear me out.'"

Adoptive American Parents of Russian Children Don't Deserve The Heat

Tina Traster | Posted 05.15.2013 | Parents
Tina Traster

A few weeks ago, a filmmaker for Radio Free Europe spent the day with my family at our home in upstate New York documenting our "ordinary" moments. Olga Loginova, the filmmaker, wanted to show the world there are "successful Russian adoptions."

Interview With Leigh Newman, Author of Still Points North

Teddy Wayne | Posted 05.11.2013 | Books
Teddy Wayne

Newman writes beautifully and vividly about growing up as a child of divorced parents -- shuttling between fishing and floatplanes with her father in Alaska and a less rugged life with her mother in Baltimore -- and its effects on her adult relationships.

8 Best ('Worst') Mother-Daughter Memoirs

Valerie Stivers-Isakova | Posted 05.11.2013 | Books
Valerie Stivers-Isakova

Oh, the daughter-memoir, fraught thing. How do you write honestly about your mother when your mother is still alive, part of your life, and probably not going to appreciate the portrait?

How I Accidentally Wrote a Book on Alzheimer's Caregiving

Marie Marley | Posted 04.27.2013 | Fifty
Marie Marley

I wrote Come Back Early Today: A Memoir of Love, Alzheimer's and Joy as a love story. It's about the powerful 30-year relationship I had with Edward Theodoru, a delightfully colorful, wickedly eccentric Romanian gentleman and scholar.

Doc, Have You Read My Book?

Julie Sarkissian | Posted 04.17.2013 | Books
Julie Sarkissian

When I received the advanced reader's copy of the book, I thought of my therapist. Without the work we had done together I wouldn't have had the presence of mind to finish the book, let alone appreciate holding it.

Turning 50 with the Lessons From 100-year-old Nana

Lori Stevic-Rust, Ph.D. ABPP | Posted 04.15.2013 | Fifty
Lori Stevic-Rust, Ph.D. ABPP

My turning 50 coincided with my grandmother turning 100 years old. And as with most old people, I began to reminisce about my life and the many lessons that my grandmother has given me. Then, a friend encouraged me to put those stories to print and write a memoir. At first I thought she was joking, and then I thought she might be drunk, but then I realized she was serious.

Setting the Record Straight on South Vietnam

Andrew Lam | Posted 04.14.2013 | Impact
Andrew Lam

Born in the Mekong Delta in 1932 to a wealthy land-owning family, Thi Quang Lam spent 25 years in the army and rose to the rank of lieutenant general ...

Why Writing Memoir Might Actually Make You Happier

Theo Pauline Nestor | Posted 04.14.2013 | Books
Theo Pauline Nestor

When I think of "therapeutic writing," I picture long scrawled journal pages of unfiltered, uncensored feelings. When the word therapeutic is used in reference to my work, I feel a smidge patronized. However, there are a couple of problems with this objection.

How to Overcome the Odds

Jeremy Harris Lipschultz | Posted 03.30.2013 | Impact
Jeremy Harris Lipschultz

The Christian Bible says in John 8:32 "the truth will set you free," and an Omaha area 20-something woman is living by her faith.

Mom Not Dead Yet? 7 Reasons to Write Your Memoir Anyway

Candace Walsh | Posted 03.16.2013 | Books
Candace Walsh

When I shared that my mother banned me from her birthday after reading my memoir, friends piped up with variations of this sentiment: "That's why I'm waiting until my mother dies to write my memoir."As a result, I came up with seven reasons not to wait.

All About My Friends, Indexed For Your Convenience

Howard Sherman | Posted 03.09.2013 | Arts
Howard Sherman

Over there, on my bookshelf, sits the biography of my friend Alan. In its index, you can find an entry, "infidelities and romantic liaisons," which di...

How Learning to Talk to a Cowboy Made Me a Better American

Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez | Posted 03.04.2013 | Books
Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez

It was in this way that we came to realize my liberal emotion attached to "tolerance for differences" was best communicated to a conservative as "personal freedom," which in turn was best communicated to a liberal as "independence."

4 New Year's Resolutions for Memoirists

Theo Pauline Nestor | Posted 03.04.2013 | Books
Theo Pauline Nestor

Want to finish and publish your memoir this year? Here are four resolutions to knock your writing up a level to create a memoir of enduring value that readers want to read and publishers will want to buy.