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75Classroom Management: A teaching memoir
Classroom Management Classroom management was the key buzzword in teachers' college when I went back to school to learn to become a teacher after a first career as a woodworker. I remember being...
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72Hal's Ride Along Motorcycling Memory Lane: Honda & Harley
All the motorcycle mania started with these three Little Hondas (First gear, it's alright. Second gear, lean right. Third gear, hang on tight... Fasterrrr... It's alright...). First the little Honda Z50A...
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86Rev. Jim Jones and the People's Temple: A Memoir
The day I met the infamous Rev. Jim Jones, he was wearing semi-opaque sunglasses and a black shirt, and he was being trailed by a half dozen or so teen-aged young men. They piled out of a wine-colored van...
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75The Rockefellers by a Rockefeller
Reviewed By Russell Baker David Rockefeller has a wonderful story to tell: a family saga, and the family is not just another run-of-the-mill saga-type family either, but one of the world's richest, a family...
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71Magdalena River Fishing Memoir
One of my favorite memories as a child was fishing on a tributary of the Magdalena River in Colombia, South America. The Magdalena is the primary river that flows from the south of Colombia and the Amazon to...
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65How to write a Client's Memoirs
I get hired to write clients' memoirs or their life story. Some people might think that this entails getting handwritten notes, journals or other items submitted to the ghostwriter and then the ghostwriter...
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67How to Write a Biography
Writing your personal story may be the most important thing you ever do. Everyone has a story to tell, but very few people take steps to make the memories in their minds translate into stories other people...
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78Folsom Vacaville San Quentin Prisons: A memoir
The best class I had in seminary, titled "Ministry to Captive Structures ", was taught by Dody Donnelly at the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley. The class included about a dozen students both women and...
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75Why Melissa Gilbert's Memoir Should Have Been Called "The Woeful Tale of a Codependent Television Star"
I love "Little House on the Prairie" which is why I was excited to read Melissa Gilbert's memoir, "Prairie Tale." I was however, a little disappointed and was not inspired like the inside jacket of the book told me I would be. For being dubbed 'America's Sweetheart', Gilbert was anything but.
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72Recession Proof Cooking, Part I (Picadillo)
My father was a depression era baby, as was my mother. As the depression was ending, World War II was beginning and with that came the rationing of meat, eggs, butter, cheese, milk, tea and chocolate. My...
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