Between My Usual Friday Posts

Writing about loss: a special interview with debut memoirist Patty Wetterling

Living through loss, trauma, and other life-changing events can be terrifically challenging. Writing about them, sometimes an important part of healing, can be hard in another way.

Patty Wetterling came to one of my weeklong writing retreats with her co-author, Joy Baker, to work on a memoir about her her son Jacob, who was abducted in 1989. We met …