As a women’s memoirist, I read a lot of memoirs. Ashley Ford’s powerhouse tale is the latest. Here’s the beauty of simple, straightforward writing catapulting us into deeply-bruised places. Feelings of not belonging, being valued or seen. While sharing astounding self-awareness and inner strength. Exactly how does a child (and then grown woman)…
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“I am in a bar in Brooklyn listening as two men, my friends, discuss whether or not my life is worth living.” So begins Chloe Cooper Jones in her brainy memoir, Easy Beauty—on page one, cutting to the essence of her healing journey. If you’ve ever despised yourself for even a second, this story is…
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All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles. I’m a memoir junkie. So being on Oprah’s List of 2022 memoirs, I thought that “All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake” would be the author, Tiya Miles’s story. It was, in…
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Whether you read Viola Davis’s exquisite memoir or listen to it, learning her story is a gut-wrenching, awe-inspiring, life-changing experience. She recently won a Grammy for the audiobook version of the book. It’s astounding that anyone who’s experienced the depths of poverty and family violence she did would not only forgive her father for his…
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As a women’s memoirist, I read a lot of women’s memoirs. Nineteen, since the summer. The one I just finished—”Know My Name,” by Chanel Miller—is in a class by itself. You may know her story. In 2015, Chanel was sexually assaulted at Stanford University. Fortunately, witnesses stopped the attack and the attacker was arrested. In…
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During an interview with the Washington Post Live, this morning, Sandra Douglas Morgan, President of the Las Vegas Raiders said that the best leadership advice she’s received is to listen to others. Imagine. If we listened to each other, truly listened. We would feel heard and be heard. Then we could disagree with one another. Viva la difference; we’d…
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