Unlock the Secret of the Rose: Transform Your Writing with Powerful Detail as Narrative
In the years that followed that first writing workshop, I have written numerous pieces about my parents. Both show up in my memoir, “Seven Springs,” about how they responded to the automobile crash I experienced in the early 1970s. It was important to me to select details that shed light on why they reacted as they did.
My mother, having grown up in a tidy institutional setting, was very uncomfortable with mess or brokenness. On the way home from the hospital, she barely looked at me as blood was dripping from my mouth after the collision. As an only child growing up in a hotel, she never got the chance to make a mess. My father, like so many of his era, focused more on business than nurturing, so he was more concerned about the legal and insurance aspects of the accident than the hug that would have helped to calm me.
