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  1. I am pleased to share an analytical guide by John Weiser titled How Memoirs Preserve History: A View from the Ground Up. It provides a detailed overview of how personal accounts serve as a primary safeguard against the hidden risks found in unverified online information.

    Read the full analysis here:
    johnwweiser.com/how-memoirs-pr

    #History #JohnWeiser #Memoir #PublicInterest #Education #Sociology #PersonalNarrative

  2. Seven Years Later, Still That Same Moment

    Seven years is supposed to feel like distance. That’s what people tell you, what you tell yourself, what the world quietly expects you to accept. Time moves forward, relentlessly, stacking days into months into years until something that once felt immediate is supposed to settle into memory. But grief doesn’t follow that rule. It doesn’t respect calendars or anniversaries. It doesn’t care how many years have passed. Sometimes seven years feels like a lifetime ago, like you’ve lived […]

    jaimedavid.blog/2026/04/18/14/

  3. 7 and 13: Unlucky, Lucky, and Everything In Between

    Numbers are strange little markers in our lives. Most people see them as simple counters, dates, ages, or statistics. But for me, two numbers have taken on lives of their own: 7 and 13. Most would consider 7 lucky. A number that appears on dice, on slots, in myths and stories, bringing with it a sense of magic, of chance in one’s favor. And 13? The classic “unlucky” number, feared by hotels, shunned by superstitious traditions, a number that seems to drag bad fortune in its wake. Yet, […]

    jaimedavid.blog/2026/01/25/02/

  4. In 1993, as my friend Pat was dying from cancer, I wrote in my journal to ground myself. When she read it, she made me promise to publish it, insisting our friendship could help others. I kept that promise. Years later, a stranger's phone call proved Pat was right about the power of words written from love.
    #Writing #Friendship #PersonalNarrative #WritersOfMastodon
    medium.com/@AngieMangino/writi

  5. My Mother's Abortion(s) — What it was like, and why we can't go back.

    Mom died in 2019 but she wanted her story told as widely as possible.

    Please share with everyone you know. Thank you.

    #abortion #choice #womensrights #feminism #personalnarrative #history

    youtube.com/watch?v=Z-cdCDqdRn

  6. "The way forward had to be with open eyes and with hearts exposed to injury. We’d seen the price we paid when we failed to bear witness."

    Amory Rowe Salem writes a beautiful new essay for Longreads about family firsts, learning to love and lose, and taking care of chickens: longreads.com/2024/01/09/hope-

    #Longreads #Essay #PersonalNarrative #Parenting #Loss #Chickens