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How to Eat an Elephant

Posted on April 11, 2026 by Ann C. Averill

How to begin the monumental task of writing your own memoir is like eating an elephant, one bite at a time. Continue reading →

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Where, Oh Death, Is Now Your Sting?

Posted on October 31, 2025 by Ann C. Averill

I am of an age where I go to a lot of funerals. Robert Redford and Diane Keaton, icons from my youth, recently departed. A close friend lost her husband, another her mother-in-law, another her beloved dad. That same week … 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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Painting and Publishing

Posted on July 29, 2025 by Ann C. Averill

I did two bold things yesterday. First, I pressed the PUBLISH button on Amazon for my memoir, Unmoored, How an Adoptee Found Her True Identity.  TA DA! And two, I finished painting my living room a deep oceanic blue. This … 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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Where Have I Been? I Finished my Memoir.

Posted on June 7, 2025 by Ann C. Averill

Dear readers, Why haven’t I blogged for over a year? First, I broke my wrist. Then my husband was hospitalized with a complicated case of pneumonia. I fell out of the habit of weekly blogging and became distracted by the … 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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Blog Dump

Posted on March 24, 2023 by Ann C. Averill

Writing is a process. Big surprise, living is a process. And trusting God is the mother of all processes. That said, let me tell you what I figured out this week about all of the above. A few weeks ago, … Continue reading →

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