Kindle Singles: The Latest Hot Trend in Publishing

Those of you who haven’t heard – Kindle singles are the latest, hottest topic in publishing these days. Personally, I think it’s a progressive and interesting trend for writers. It’s kind of like self-publishing your own magazine features and putting it out there to your audience of readers to buy. Kind of like an iTunes song for writers. They’re cheap to download and easy to read. But...

Marriage Take Two

On our first date, Mark told me he had been married before.  I reacted with grace and acceptance.  It was sad and I wished he had never had a starter marriage, but they were young and in love.  No kids, no real estate, no baggage, no problem.  I could handle it. Later, after we’d been married and had children, our daughters wouldn’t be as gracious or accepting. One day, while I was away, Mark decided...

The New Momoir Blog

So the Momoir blog is begin reborn, reinvented, reimagined. I have recently decided to hand over the reigns for the blog to Karen Bannister. Karen was one of my very first online writing students. Back then, she only had one child and was living in Ontario with her new family, struggling with post-partum depression and using writing to sort her way through it all. I was so riveted by her writing – it was...

My Blog Turned 5 Just the Other Day…

Today, as I sit at my corner desk looking out at the Vancouver rain, I struggle with the words for my latest blog post. It’s been five years now. A big anniversary. My blog is five years old. That’s years younger than my children, but it’s also years longer than I imagined I’d be writing a blog. When I first started, it wasn’t even my idea. I was teaching memoir writing for moms and one of my tech-savvy...

Crossing the Street: A Mother-Son Tale

by Keri Michaud “It’s not you. It’s me,” he says. I haven’t heard that line in awhile, but I never expected to hear it from my ten-year-old son. “I’m not your girlfriend,” I respond, laughing out loud. “You can’t break up with me. I’m your mother.” Then after considering what my boy is trying to tell me, I say, “I know. You want to be more independent. You want to walk to school by...