family history | Barbara Stark Nemon

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Welcome to Hard Cider

Benediction for a Novel

Dog Ears Books - August 5

Quiet Stories Run Deep - The Quiet Americans by Erika Dreifus

A Writer's Writer Website Sampler

Reading Around Even in Darkness: Comp books

Flipping the Way the World is Perceived

Becoming a 10% Better Writer- 10 Steps

Getting tougher- alternative Holocaust narratives

Eulogy as Memoir

A Century of Love

Today my father would have been 100 years old— a staggering thought, not only because of the weight a century bears, but because his...

Portugal, France, Spain- a New Story

Nearly a year ago, a fourteen-year-old embroideress from Portugal in the early 17th century took up residence in the deep reservoir of...

Family Histories, Family Mysteries- Am Shalom, Glencoe, IL, October 14 & 15.

Am Shalom and the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center host Even in Darkness for two events!

When to Keep Secrets, When to Tell Truths

Thursday, September 24, Grand Rapids Public Library, Main Branch 7 PM. "Barbara will discuss the intricacies and challenges of writing...

What's In Your Shoebox? Preserving Your Family History

Not everyone wants to write a novel, but it seems as if everybody’s got that box full of old photos, bundles of letters, birth...

We Are Here...An Appreciation

Ellen Cassedy’s memoir We Are Here: Memories of the Lithuanian Holocaust charts her journey to her family’s past and her own reckoning...

Flipping the Way the World is Perceived

“Good writing can flip the way the world is perceived,” states Steven Pinker, experimental psychologist and world famous writer on...