Linda Wisniewski

Linda C. Wisniewski writes and teaches memoir workshops in Bucks County, PA. Her work has been published in the Christian Science Monitor, two Cup of Comfort anthologies, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Massage, The Quilter and other places both print and online, and she has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Her memoir, Off Kilter: A Woman’s Journey to Peace with Scoliosis, Her Mother and Her Polish Heritage, was published in 2008 by Pearlsong Press. Visit her website at www.lindawis.com.

Articles:

Grieving My Broken Hand

When a loss is “only” temporary, we don’t always allow time to grieve. We “slap ourselves upside the head, ” tell ourselves to “suck it up,” and remind ourselves how many worse situations other people are going through. But how bad does the loss have to be to deserve a timeout for some personal attention? Exactly one week before Christmas, in a moment of joy, I fell and broke my left, dominant hand. My son was home from college and watching football with my husband in our new “sunken” family room while I made what I thought would be a […]

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Poems of Healing and Hope

Sometimes I forget how powerful poetry can be. Then I find a lovely book like Beloved On the Earth: 150 Poems of Grief and Gratitude, and resolve to read poems more often and share them with others. Brought together by editors Jim Perlman, Deborah Cooper and Mara Hart, this anthology includes work by poets you’ve heard of and ones you’ll be happy to discover.  The book takes its title from a line in Raymond Carver’s poem, “Late Fragment.” I was pleased to find the book includes two poems by writers I know personally. The idea for Colorado poet Marj Hahne’s […]

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