Category: Life Writing

Learn about writing real-life experiences in a journal, memoir, or blog to reflect on past experiences and overcome the fear of telling your abuse story.

  • Life is Like a Facebook Feed a Poem

    Life is Like a Facebook Feed: a Poem by L.M. Carleton

    When life leaves you feeling like a Facebook feed.
    Always erratic and changing direction.

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  • As a Child Sees a Poem

    As a Child Sees – a poem by L.M. Carleton

    I asked, “Lord, what is your will for me?”

    He told me, “See as a child sees.”

    If I could see as a child sees,
    How would the world look to me?

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  • What is the worst day of your life?

    Have you ever had the worst day of your life? One day or incident that stands out above all the rest. Here is a true story from an upcoming memoir about the worst day of my life.

    The worst day of my life is the day of my firstborn’s open heart surgery at two years old.

    My husband and I had a room at the Ronald McDonald House near the hospital, and our daughter stayed with her grandmother.

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