*This is a true story. Names and places have been changed for privacy. The first time Heather saw Jacob was in 1998 at an early summer wedding in a coastal town north of Boston. It was the wedding of Jacob’s mother, Ellen, to Robert, the step-cousin of Heather’s husband. Heather was twenty-three, already unhappy in…
Tag: Memoir
The Shortest Autobiography
Creative writing is one of my favorite things to do. But, writing my autobiography has proven to be one of the most challenging. It’s not for lack of content. I could probably write three different versions – one about surviving a severely dysfunctional family, one about beating the odds, one about encountering the paranormal and…