Archive - Poor Man's Feast

the fish please, plain-broiled, with the sauce on the side.

A Short Lesson on Truth

Feb 3 •

January 2025

Permission and the importance of telling your story now.

Join me this spring in person to talk about the right and urgency to tell our stories.

Jan 31 •

The back-handed gift of long Covid. [RECIPE]

Jan 28 •

is cruelty addictive?

Humans, psychopathology, and the sadistic urge.

Jan 21 •

stepping into the caim

Are self-care and elder-care mutually exclusive?

Jan 15 •

The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #40: Elissa Altman

"As someone who teaches memoir, it’s probably the biggest issue that I see: writers, almost always women, who don’t believe that they have the right to…

Published on Memoir Land • Jan 15

the broken-heart diet

On Cooking When You're Too Undone to Eat

Jan 8 •

"do I have to show other people my work before publishing it?"

For the love of God: No.

Jan 6 •

the stories we own, and the stories we don't

An Excerpt from Permission: The New Memoirist and the Courage to Create

Jan 2 •

please give yourself permission

On Making a New Year's Commitment to Tell Your Story

Jan 1 •

December 2024

do not tire; never lose interest

Curiosity and Change at the New Year

Dec 28, 2024 •

a very shenpa christmas

On Not Taking the Bait This Holiday Season [RECIPE]

Dec 21, 2024 •

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