by Laura Rink | Oct 31, 2025 | Memoir, Writing
Over five years in, I’ve begun a major revision on my family memoir, Matilda’s Silence: The Search For My Armenian Family’s Story. In preparation, I created a Revision Roadmap Outline. The outline contains one sentence answers to each of these four questions...
by Laura Rink | Sep 26, 2025 | Daily Life, Memoir, Writing
I’ve been working on an essay about my tinnitus (you say təˈnīdəs, I say ˈtinədəs, we’re both correct) on and off for four years. One section was more lyric than the rest of the essay, and I struggled to find a way to return to that lyricism. The essay...
by Laura Rink | Sep 12, 2025 | Daily Life, Memoir, Online Presence, Writing
Last month I wrote about social media and my dilemma on how to be on the various platforms. I wrote about a reality in my life. The next day I read Heather Cox Richardson’s newsletter and wanted to retract my blog, which in comparison seemed like insipid drivel. HCR...
by Laura Rink | Aug 29, 2025 | Daily Life, Memoir, Online Presence, Writing
Last November, I was out of the country when the latest exodus from Twitter took place. Many in my writing community were fluttering over to Blue Sky. I wasn’t on Twitter, but I joined Blue Sky out of a sense of solidarity. We are all in this together! It was easy and...
by Laura Rink | Jul 3, 2025 | Daily Life, Memoir, Nature, Writing
I wrote an essay for Big Table Press for their This Year: 2025 project, which they describe as “building a living time capsule or a conversational archive or a collection of days.” When I signed up earlier this year, the roster of writers was full and I was on the...
by Laura Rink | Jun 19, 2025 | Daily Life, Memoir
[Due to my website being offline while it was being redesigned, this update was previously posted only on Substack and Facebook.] Days 14 – 17 May 3-5 After the rebound of Covid symptoms for forty-eight hours, those symptoms again subsided. On day 17, I saw my doctor...
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