STILL HERE THINKING OF YOU A Second Chance With Our Mothers
Follow the Writers
  • HOME
  • Book
  • Authors
  • Excerpts
  • "Moments of Being"
  • Reviews & Press
  • Readings & Events
  • Workshops
  • Purchase
  • Contact
  • Blog

Good Book

11/20/2015

0 Comments

 
I read the review; the book sounds good. It is a memoir in which a young woman contemplates years’ worth of her diaries. The reviewer says it captures the impossibility of recording one’s life. As someone who also writes memoir, I would like to read it.
 
There is a world in which I will. There is another world in which I would have written it, and a world in which I will write a similar book. For now, though, the fact of the book’s existence, that the author wrote it and that the reviewer commended it, is enough.
 
That someone in a different world took the matter of her experience and transformed it into words that draw me.
 
That I believe will draw me.
 
That will mirror myself back to me.
 
The awareness of others who seem to perceive emotions similar to mine, to notice what I notice, who I imagine might respond not too differently from the way I would, is a great comfort to me. Some of them are my friends or will become my friends. Others create the work — the writing, the imagery, the music — that I lose myself in and long for. That affirms me.
 
So whether I read the young woman’s memoir or not, I am happy knowing that the book has been written. For now, it is all I need. 
​

                                                        ~ Susan Hodara
0 Comments

    Authors:

    Vicki Addesso
    Susan Hodara
    Joan Potter 
    Lori Toppel

    Archives

    February 2021
    May 2020
    July 2019
    May 2018
    December 2016
    September 2016
    March 2016
    January 2016
    November 2015
    July 2015
    April 2015
    November 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    April 2014
    January 2014
    November 2013
    October 2013
    September 2013
    July 2013
    June 2013
    May 2013
    April 2013
    March 2013
    January 2013

    Categories:

    All
    Daughters
    Family
    Food
    Friends
    Joan Potter
    Lori Toppel
    Memory
    Mothers
    Self-isolation
    Susan Hodara
    Vicki Addesso
    Writing

    RSS Feed

    Picture
Copyright @ 2013 Still Here Thinking of You by Vicki Addesso, Susan Hodara, Joan Potter, and Lori Toppel