Book Review: “Born a Crime” by Trevor Noah
My monthly book review is of comedian Trevor Noah’s autobiography “Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood.” … More Book Review: “Born a Crime” by Trevor Noah
An aspiring writer and trained librarian who is finally trying to finish all those ideas and unfinished stories I’ve thought of, started and worked on over the years. 2018 was finally the year I got closer to becoming a published writer by writing 12 short stories in 12 months. #12monthsofstories was a short story every month for a year (a goal I did in 2018). To keep me motivated and writing I chronicled my journey on my writing blog which I titled “12 Months of Stories” during 2018 but I’m now calling my blog “Writing By Laura.” As long as I’ve been on various social media, I usually get the username “wordsbylaura.” Instead of that I decided to call this blog “Writing By Laura.” Also, I used to have a separate blog called “Watching Pop Culture With My Parents” and I’ve now turned it into a monthly segment on this blog.
My monthly book review is of comedian Trevor Noah’s autobiography “Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood.” … More Book Review: “Born a Crime” by Trevor Noah
I evaluate if my new blog feature #TBIthursday is helping me generate new content for my brain injury memoir. … More Is #TBIthursday working?
I ponder if my accident and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) was my superhero origin story in this installment of #TBIthursday. … More #TBIthursday: Is this my superhero origin story?
Instead of “Christmas in July” I am giving thanks in my own “Thanksgiving in July.” … More A Day of Thanksgiving in July
In this week’s installment of #TBIthursday, I look back on some good advice given to me while I was recovering that I still use today. … More #TBIthursday: My Favorite Time of My Current Day
I launch a new feature that I am calling Traumatic Brain Injury Thursday where I focus on writing more about my TBI. … More New Feature: Traumatic Brain Injury Thursday
This is a little tutorial on how to unsubscribe to junk mail because I realized my parents didn’t know there was a difference between delete and unsubscribe (hint: there is and it makes a difference). … More Pop Culture- Junk Email: How To Reduce (A Tutorial)
Book review of “The Hate U Give” by Angie Thomas and discussion of “How to be an Antiracist” by Ibram X. Kendi. A listing of books on race and the black experience are also given. … More Book Review: The Hate U Give and books about race
An extra monthly essay where I talk about the very important dogs in my life in an essay I’m calling “The Important Puppy.” … More Extra Monthly Essay: The Important Puppy
A writing update on my memoir. I discuss how much I have written, how much more I have to write, and techniques I will use to finish my memoir. … More Writing My Memoir: An Update