Let's Talk Memoir

Episode 95 ft. Vickie Rubin

Brooke Warner

Vickie Rubin joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about raising a child with medical complexities and intellectual disabilities, submicroscopic chromosomal deletions, incorporating clippings, news articles, and photographs in memoir, when you feel something is wrong with your child, her career in the helping field, overcoming marriage struggles while raising children with disabilities, advocating for other families and for herself, the gift of a late diagnosis, the decision to move her daughter to a group home, and hew memoir Raising Jess: A Story of Hope.

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Episode 247 ft. Carol Odell

Episode 247 ft. Carol Odell

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Episode 246 ft. Cinelle Barnes

Episode 246 ft. Cinelle Barnes

Cinelle Barnes joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about her brain aneurism rupture, writing a memoir two years after brain surgery, the healing modality that is writing personal narrative, memoir as a palimpsest, having multiple memoirs, narrating from the...