A hot topic right now is MacKenzie Phillip’s memoir, High On Arrival. It’s so hot, that even Oprah wants in on the action, having the actress on her show to help her promote her story. In the book, Phillips details her life as the daughter of musician John Phillips.
Born into rock and roll royalty, flying in Learjets to the Virgin Islands at five, making pot brownies with her father’s friends at eleven, Mackenzie grew up in an all-access kingdom of hippie freedom and heroin cool. It was a kingdom over which her father, the legendary John Phillips of The Mamas …read more

I read this interview with Libby Cataldi, author of “Stay Close: A Mother’s Story of Her Son’s Addiction.” 
She talks about how she feels that interfering with her son’s failures – bailing him out of jail, paying for his fine when his car was towed, etc – actually enabled him and prolonged his period of drug use. She found it impossible to turn away, to not help him when he needed help.
Cataldi: I blame myself all of the time. Absolutely I felt like a failure, like a failure as a mother. I should have been able to fix it. I should …read more

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 What can one write in six words to express their life? Carol O’Dell, author of Mothering Mother and More, tagged my Alzheimer’s Notes blog for this meme, Is Your Life a Six Word Memoir?  So I thought I’d share this with my readers here.
What words can I use? What words can you use to describe your life?  This would vary at different stages in my life. I can include experiences now that I didn’t several years ago.
Wife, mother, grandmother, author, quilter, and visionary  come to mind. I’m also a teacher, speaker and business woman. However, the first six seem to encompass the others. …read more