LeliaMay 21, 20227 min readGibbons, Gornick, Hardy, Bauby and Living Your Great StoryGreat Story Coaching* outlines the 3 ways we tend to narrate our lives to ourselves. The victim story (similar to Parul Sehgal’s “trauma...
LeliaApr 30, 20227 min readEdmund White, Memoir & Astro ReadingAbout halfway through reading My Lives by Edmund White, I expected to give it a two-star rating. White spends so much time narrating his...
LeliaDec 24, 20212 min readMars as Imaginary Friend and Creative Muse In an interview in The Guardian, Maxine Hong Kingston describes a male alter ego from her memoir I Love a Broad Margin to My Life....
LeliaDec 20, 20213 min readEudora Welty + Aries + GuiltIn One Writer’s Beginnings, Eudora Welty says her short story"Livvie" is “about youth and old age: the death of an old, proud, possessive...