by Laura Rink | Aug 29, 2026 | Daily Life, Memoir, Writing
In my Armenian family memoir, there’s a chapter titled “This Land is Whose Land.” Doing research, I’d contact other Armenians with questions and they’d write back referring to Armenia while I kept saying my family was from Turkey. As this persisted, I grew confused....
by Laura Rink | Aug 1, 2026 | Daily Life, Memoir, Writing
“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” – Leo Tolstoy While I’ve written essays and I’m working on a family memoir about my paternal family, I’ve written almost nothing about my maternal family. How does one...
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 | Apr 2, 2026 | Writing
Highlights, Past and Future Community is my number one reason for attending writing conferences. To meet up with local writer friends and make new ones. To be around people who get what being a writer is all about. To share in the struggles and the flow, to support...
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