Category Archives: Flash memoir

The Write Words at the Right Time

Posted on October 28, 2025 by Ann C. Averill

I recently read this quote on the FB page of author Robin Gunn. “On days — or weeks — when life seems to enter a floundering pause, I take comfort from this thought Lilias Trotter wrote in 1903 when she … Continue reading →

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Discovering Recovery Church

Posted on August 29, 2025 by Ann C. Averill

A few nights ago, I went to a local Recovery Church with a friend who, like me, had devastating alcoholism in her family.  I wasn’t sure what I’d find or exactly what I was looking for when I walked into … Continue reading →

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No Overnight Success

Posted on August 22, 2025 by Ann C. Averill

I just published my memoir, Unmoored, How An Adoptee found Her True Identity. I am 72 years old, and I couldn’t have done it a moment sooner. Let me explain. I’ve always loved stories. As a small child at my … Continue reading →

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As an Outsider

Posted on June 17, 2025 by Ann C. Averill

More than twenty years ago I was teaching first-generation immigrant students in a public high school. They came from every trouble spot around the globe. They had crossed oceans, continents, deserts, and landed in my ELL classroom. My charge was … Continue reading →

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Harriet and the Rest of Us

Posted on March 27, 2024 by Ann C. Averill

I haven’t written here in a while. I could say it was because I broke my wrist and my family has had everything this winter from norovirus to pneumonia, but the real reason is because I was struggling to finish … Continue reading →

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Past Lives

Posted on November 18, 2023 by Ann C. Averill

A week ago, I was on a plane watching a Korean movie called Past Lives. The movie begins with three people, two men and a woman, sitting at a bar. You hear the voiceover of other customers wondering what their … Continue reading →

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LOVE CHILD

Posted on October 28, 2023 by Ann C. Averill

It’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and I’m adopted, so until I connected with the woman who bore me, I was unaware that my maternal grandmother had a double mastectomy in her thirties. That trial came on top of being tragically … Continue reading →

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Their Eyes Were Watching God

Posted on October 11, 2023 by Ann C. Averill

Forty-six years ago, my husband and I were married on Columbus Day, now called Indigenous Peoples’ Day. A few nights prior to our anniversary, I finished Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, and was struck by the … Continue reading →

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Do You Believe in Fairies?

Posted on September 25, 2023 by Ann C. Averill

When I was still small enough to take a bath in the kitchen sink, my parents rented a cottage on Long Island Sound, and we sailed to a small island for a picnic. Once we made landfall, my mom prepared … Continue reading →

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Vanishing Point

Posted on September 13, 2023 by Ann C. Averill

Definition: 1. : a point at which receding parallel lines seem to meet when represented in linear perspective. 2. : a point at which something disappears or ceases to exist. ***************************************************************************** My husband bought a newish truck to replace our old … Continue reading →

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