What We Have Learned

What We Have Learned

How To Write a Life

Writing a memoir with one overarching theme feels impossible when the story keeps changing

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Heidi J Kellam
Sep 30, 2025
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Where It Began

When I started writing my memoir in the fall of 2016, I had just entered graduate school. And I was married. The process began because more than a few people I met in this new space I was occupying made shocked faces and asked me, “Have you ever thought about writing this down?” or said, “Wow. You shoul…

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