Memoir Magazine

Healing Through Storytelling by Melissa Zook

The practice of medicine is based on the physician’s ability to gather story from the patient. Our story is our human identity and our humanity. It is also the ...

5 Minute Read/Family/Inspirational/Love/Memoir/nonfiction/Relationships

From Cambridge to Canada – An Extraordinary Love Story by Ellie Reynolds

He waited until after we had made love for the first time to reveal his age. He was thirty-six years older than me. I knew he was older, but this confession too...

15 Minute Read/Cancer/Escape/Family/Funny/Girls & Women/Grief/Literature/Loss/Memoir/Mommy Dearest/nonfiction/Relationships

Anyway – A Memoir Excerpt by Barbara Tyler

His quiet Southern lilt didn’t match what he was saying. There should have been magnolia petals falling out of his mouth or some exhaustive yarn about his mothe...

10 Minute Read/Grief/Literature/Loss/Love/Mental Health/Mental Illness/nonfiction/Relationships

All That Carry On…: Oktoberfest by Ellen O’Donnell

After August 31, the good mornings and goodnights disappeared. In the push/pull of bipolar, as he muddled through the anhedonia, ambivalence, and anxiety, his c...