My UCLA Extension spring course started last week and here’s an exercise we did based on the opening line of Thomas’s memoir, A Three Dog Life. “This is the one thing that stays the same: my husband got hurt.”
What is the one thing that stays the same in your life?
(Order both her memoirs while you’re at it. The other one is Safekeeping and it’s a book I read over and over. Some chapters are only a few lines or a paragraph long. She bounces from writing it in first person to third. From present tense to past. A very freeing book.)
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