by Laura Rink | Jun 30, 2026 | Daily Life, Memoir, Writing
If you were asked to write about your childhood, grounded in place and sensory detail, what would you write? On which aspects of your childhood would you focus? Which family idiosyncrasies would you describe? In 1993, George Ella Lyon published her poem, “Where...
by Laura Rink | May 30, 2026 | Daily Life, Memoir, Writing
In my February 2025 blog, “Delights and Joys,” I wrote about my Daily Delights journal. The journal rests on my nightstand and every night I write in it one or a few things that delighted me that day. Many of my daily delights are creatures and most of those creatures...
by Laura Rink | Apr 29, 2026 | Memoir, Writing
Noemi, Matilda, Hilda, and Silvia Haigazn, 1926. . When I think about family memoirs, I think about Michael Ondaatje’s Running in the Family, Jeanette Walls’ The Glass Castle, and Deborah Miranda’s Bad Indians, to name just three....
by Laura Rink | Feb 24, 2026 | Daily Life, Memoir, Writing
A friend recently inquired about my writing. I’m always happy to be asked how my writing is going and on this day the work had gone especially well and I was excited to share that news. I had started a new chapter in my Armenian family memoir, a chapter that, for a...
by Laura Rink | Dec 19, 2025 | Daily Life, Memoir, Writing
This month, the holidays notwithstanding, I’m thinking about death. Actually I’ve been thinking about death all year. Thinking about death is not a joyful occupation but, for me, it hasn’t been a depressing one either. Thinking about death has felt necessary. The...
by Laura Rink | Nov 30, 2025 | Daily Life, Memoir, Writing
I am perpetually working on my narrator’s arc in my family memoir, Matilda’s Silence: The Search For My Armenian Family’s Story. The narrator’s arc is how the narrator changes throughout the story. The narrator’s arc is important but I’ve focused more on finding...
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