Writing About Family: The Kitchen Drawer

Writer and scholar Rebecca Rainof offers advice on writing about family by considering how “pockets of place can convey a larger sense of home.”
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Writer and scholar Rebecca Rainof offers advice on writing about family by considering how “pockets of place can convey a larger sense of home.”
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Writer and scholar Rebecca Rainof offers advice on how to write about family by considering lessons learned over a lifetime.
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