Category Archives: Flash memoir

You Are My Everything

Posted on December 16, 2022 by Ann C. Averill

Sunday, it was snowing, and my husband was recovering from Covid, so I took a shower and dressed in fresh pajamas. My plan for the day, skip church, go nowhere, and couch potato all day long. Laying around, in my … Continue reading →

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The Creche

Posted on December 2, 2022 by Ann C. Averill

This week I put up the creche I made with my mom when I was little. This post is a kind of rerun, an edited version of a post about that creche that I shared a few years back before … Continue reading →

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Does Size Matter?

Posted on November 24, 2022 by Ann C. Averill

The following is an essay I read last Friday at BraVa, an event sponsored by Marion Roach Smith and the YWCA in Troy, NY. Marion is the author of The Memoir Project: A Thoroughly Non-Standardized Text for Writing and Life, … Continue reading →

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Memoir as a Process of Forgiveness

Posted on November 17, 2022 by Ann C. Averill

Almost ten years ago, a friend helped me set up a blog after I’d published my first book, Teacher Dropout about discovering God’s grace while I worked in a poverty school. He explained, a blog is like the lady at … Continue reading →

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Dry Bones

Posted on November 8, 2022 by Ann C. Averill

As a writer, I recently listened to an interview with Shayla Raquel on Marion Roach Smith’s podcast, Qwerty. It was so good, I bought her book, The 10 Commandments of Author Branding. In it, Shayla, a self-publishing mentor and branding … Continue reading →

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Nothing Gold Can Stay–Except Jesus

Posted on October 20, 2022 by Ann C. Averill

As a child, how I loved October, the chill on my cheeks and the early dark that foretold the coming of Halloween, that hallowed eve when I could become anyone I wanted. And, by merely pressing a doorbell, I received … Continue reading →

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Prove-it Prayers

Posted on October 13, 2022 by Ann C. Averill

When I was almost a believer, I started praying prove-it prayers to see if God was real. Could he see me? Could he hear me? Did he care about my circumstances? And did he have the power to intervene? I … Continue reading →

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I Never Wanted to be a Teacher

Posted on October 6, 2022 by Ann C. Averill

This is a guest post I wrote for another blog called The Soft Never. It’s about the weird way God guides us to our destinies despite our fears and failures. Maybe even because of them. “My thoughts are nothing like … Continue reading →

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Baila Bien

Posted on September 22, 2022 by Ann C. Averill

While I was an ELL (English Language Learners) teacher, I signed up for a summer Spanish immersion program in Mexico sponsored by my school district. Not all my students spoke Spanish, but the point of my two-week field trip, which … Continue reading →

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Angel of Mercy

Posted on September 16, 2022 by Ann C. Averill

This is the season when children go back to school with all its challenges, academic and social. And I’m reminded of someone I’ll remember forever for her kindness. Someone who sheltered me when I was small and vulnerable. But this … Continue reading →

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