When we set out to write from memory, our biggest obstacle is finding the specific sense memories which anchor our work and make it credible and real to readers. At the outset we must accept that memory is malleable

My Girl's Life in My Pink Room - by Janet Grace Riehl

We’d fixed up the White Cottage really nice.
When I came down with the mumps, Daddy stayed home,
read to me and put in an indoor bathroom.

Our family moved a few paces down to the Big Brown House
from

Transition Is A Place All Its Own - Boxes as Evidence of Transition - by Janet Grace Riehl

Transition is a place all of its own. Transition is a place of in-between-ness, of being on the move, and in motion. Sorting and packing. Yes this/not that. Clearing space, literally, for a new life cycle to follow, the

"Moon in the Water," by Elizabeth Grayson - by Janet Grace Riehl

I was lucky enough to savor a long lunch this week with the woman behind the Elizabeth Grayson books. She enjoys her anonymity, so I’ll just say this: she’s one heck of a woman and in reading her newest