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HAVING DECIDED TO WRITE MEMOIR FOR A LIVING has its perils. For me, it has some extra-prickly ones, since my only sibling has been teaching memoir-writing for 13 years, and has a disarming thing or 20 to say on the topic—plus she shares a lifetime of my memories. Now Marion Roach Smith has tucked her tactics (along with a number of our childhood anecdotes) into “The Memoir Project: A Thoroughly Non-Standardized Text for Writing & Life,” which we’re celebrating along with the medium of memoir as a guide to life in my latest big giveaway. Dare to join us?

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Shannon Jackson says:

June 15, 2011 at 11:58 am

Among many others, Learning to Fall: The Blessings of An Imperfect Life, by Philip Simmons and There Is A Season by Patrick Lane.

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Connie VanDeKoppel says:

September 19, 2011 at 11:10 am

The Good Earth, by Pearl S.Buck Instilled dignity and the need to preserve my piece of the earth and all of it where ever I am.
Please include me in your drawing.Thankyou!

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Susan Hidalgo says:

September 25, 2011 at 4:13 am

The Secret Life of Bees – great story with a lot of “honey” in it :)

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how conservation starts in your yard, with doug tallamy

‘NATURE’S BEST HOPE’ is the title of University of Delaware professor Doug Tallamy’s new book, and the subtitle reads like this: “A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard.” In other words, you and I are nature’s best hope. Our actions count, and they add up to counteract a fragmented landscape and other challenges to the survival of so many critically important native creatures and the greater environment we all share.

Doug Tallamy’s 2007 book, “Bringing Nature Home,” has been for many of us a wake-up call into the entire subject of the unbreakable link between native plant species and native wildlife, and now with more than a decade of additional research insights, he goes further.

(Stream it below, read the illustrated transcript or subscribe free.)

giveaway: 'the memoir project,' a guide to life