by Hollye Dexter | Apr 23, 2014 | Amy Ferris, Dancing At the Shame Prom, family, hope through adversity, life lessons, life story, surviving disaster, the power of positive thinking, writing life, writing memoir
(This story was posted on “Maria Shriver’s Architects of Change.” It is excerpted from my new memoir “Fire Season: Losing Everything and Finding Myself.” With deep gratitude…) On the morning of November 18th, 1994, my family...
by Hollye Dexter | Feb 4, 2012 | essay writing, Johnny Mathis, life story, memoir, self acceptance, telling the truth, UCLA, writing
Last week, as I was the visiting writer for a UCLA online writing class, one student told me how difficult it was for her to let others read her work, and asked me how to get over the fear of judgment. This is what I love about doing this class- writers ask such...