LeliaMay 21, 20227 minGibbons, 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 minEdmund 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...
LeliaMar 12, 20224 minDesire in Audre Lorde’s Zami: A New Spelling of My NameIn Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, Audre Lorde uses the erotic, or what Mary Karr might call the carnal, to deeply embed herself in her...
LeliaFeb 28, 20224 minBernardine Evaristo, Elaine Dundy, Patti Smith & ResilienceThere’s a great passage in Manifesto: On Never Giving Up where Bernardine Evaristo declares “In spite of what my father endured, he never...