Author's writing desk with a stack of books, rocks from Petoskey, MI and shells from Vero Beach.

Memoir Inspiration

It Begins With You
Jillian Turecki
Ikigai
Yukari Mitsuhashi
Calling in the One
Katherine Woodward Thomas
Manifest
Roxie Nafousi
Like Streams to the Ocean
Jedidiah Jenkins
To Shake the Sleeping Self
Jedidiah Jenkins
Fear Gone Wild
Kayla Stoecklein
Dog Songs
Mary Oliver
Mother, Nature
Jedidiah Jenkins
Handwash Cold
Karen Miller
Taste
Stanley Tucci
Strong Girl Brave Girl
Kelsey Baldwin
We Are the Luckiest
Laura McKowen
Paradise in Plain Sight
Karen Miller
The Outrun
Amy Liptrot
My Life in France
Julia Child
Wintering
Katherine May
The Boy and the Mountain
Torbjørn Ekelund
In Praise of Paths
Torbjørn Ekelund
First, We Make the Beast Beautiful
Sarah Wilson
Lands of Lost Borders
Kate Harris
Know My Name
Chanel Miller
Nowhere for Very Long
Brianna Madia
Between Two Kingdoms
Suleika Jaouad
You Could Make This Place Beautiful
Maggie Smith
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin
The Power of Writing It Down
Allison Fallon
The Year of Living Danishly
Helen Russell
The Women I Think About at Night
Mia Kankimäki