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Aug.10.2010
My memoir, The Guru Looked Good, takes place within the same yogic movement, Siddha Yoga, that Elizabeth Gilbert describes in Eat Pray Love. My story, as a staff member for over ten years, is very different from hers, not quite so appropriate for ladies' luncheons. In any event, the movie Eat Pray...
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Aug.08.2010
For almost 20 years my husband, Fred, and I have been hosting Authentic Writing studios weekly in our home in Woodstock, NY, as well as in Manhattan and places far beyond! About 10 people join us each time. It's a place to write. Because we have such strong feelings about the power of writing...
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Aug.07.2010
The story continues to unfold, I welcome you to Chapter 26 of Memoir in Progress, the story of what might be called a "private cult" ...the setting is Manhattan, the year is 1982 ... Memoir in Progress
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Aug.03.2010
Dear Followers of the Tale, I wrote Chapter 24 in last night's workshop and typed it up today under cover at work. If you want to see what our heroine is up to, please take a look! Memoir in Progress!
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Jul.31.2010
A short new chapter for Memoir in Progress went up this morning, Chapter 24: Short Leash. For all those interested in how cults take shape invisibly...
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Jul.29.2010
This week that's what writing has felt like: facing the darkness, not closing my eyes, writing. I invite you to view the results. Chapter 23 of my memoir in progress is up. with warm wishes, Marta Memoir in Progress
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Jul.24.2010
I hear people say that often. One friend said it to me recently, adding, "I just don't have that 'obedience' DNA." But I see how he is utterly dominated by his wife, how she shapes almost his every thought, how he does not dare cross her. He calls that love. Exactly.
I can make the case...
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Jul.21.2010
...if you'd read...
Chapter 21 "Obedience" is up at Memoir in Progress, the ongoing saga of a 20-something Manhattanite, turning her back on writing and the arts, because she gets convinced that yoga/mediation/enlightenment have something more to offer...
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Jul.21.2010
Dear Red Room Friends,
I know you've already heard me invite you to the KGB bar. That was a little over a month ago. I was very excited to be reading there and sent word out the world over. Then the day before the big event, I fell -- hard -- off my bicycle, and broke my kneecap (!) and had...
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Jul.11.2010
The question that hovers over this book for me -- one I cannot answer, but which I hope the writing will -- is WHY did this person, this young me, stay in this situation. I think it's a question millions of people ask themselves when they look back on certain times in their life...I invite you to...
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Jun.30.2010
A short clip of my colleague Jim Kullander and I talking about the upcoming Memoir Festival to be held at Omega Institute, July 16-18. I am very excited & looking forward to this one-of-a-kind event! Please watch!
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Jun.28.2010
Today is a good day. Work is quiet enough that I can write while I'm here, something that hasn't happened for a couple of months. I invite you to read Chapter 17 of Memoir in Progress, Family. I am trying to paint for you a story that took place 20 years ago, perhaps it is a cautionary tale.
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Jun.26.2010
For all of you interested in memoir -- writing and reading it -- I want to make sure you know about the Memoir Festival that I am hosting at Omega Instiute, Rhinebeck, NY in 3 weeks' time: July 16-18.
It will be such a really great weekend. Here is the list of writers who will be there: Malachy...
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Jun.23.2010
The next chapter of memoir is up, the story of a twenty-something in Manhattan getting drawn in to what will become a cult. How do these things happen to smart, sensitive people? This is the question I write to chip away at...I invite you to read chapter 15, The Hard Kind of Easy at Memoir in...
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Jun.20.2010
I completely tumbled off my bicycle yesterday -- I had just had the tires pumped up by Michael, a guy in town who takes care of people's bicycles for free because he wants us to use them. So I'm on my first ride of the season, just breezing in and out of town instead of walking or driving. The...
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About Marta
I'm the author of the memoir The Guru Looked Good that covers my many years in the bowels of a well known "spiritual" organization, from what drew me in, to how it was to be there, backstage at the side of the guru, and how I found my way out. I...
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