the good daughter

The Writing Room: Writing Tips from Jasmin Darznik of “Good Daughter” Fame

November 9, 2011 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

Writing tips from Jasmin Darznik: “The big lie of memoir is that the story ends.” Read more.

Confessions of a Nintendo Mom: The Day I Unplugged My Eight-Year-Old

Like any normal person with a job, two kids and a front yard full of weeds, I had been sleeping in on a Sunday morning – until the sound of Jon and Peter playing the new Nintendo woke me up. I burst in on them. “HEY. YOU WOKE ME UP.” No answer. So enraptured were they with their dratted boomerangs and Oktoroks they didn’t care that they had wrecked my beautiful Sunday morning sleep-in. I stomped back to bed, covered my head and cried. Read more.

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