How to Write a (Grief) Memoir

February 22, 2011 By Dennis

Abel Keogh

Abel Keogh has been through a lot. He’s an author who lost his first wife to suicide. He is very open about the experience, including having written a book about it. He has since remarried, but the experience of his first wife’s passing and as a widower clearly shows through.

His latest post contains some of his thoughts on an excerpts of a memoir for someone else who has gone through the death of a spouse.

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BLOGGER FOCUS

Aaron Quist returned home from his mission in 2000, which has given him plenty of time to contemplate being an RM. He decided to start a new blog to not only ease, but maximize the transition back to civilian life for recently returned missionaries. It’s called The RMTC, or Returned Missionary Training Center.

Makes perfect sense. We have plowed the wisdom of generations of missionary work into our Missionary Training Center, but when our youth return home after their service, we give them a handshake and wish them all the best. Maybe what we really need is a post-MTC. But until then, at least there’s the RMTC blog.

Originally from Arizona, Aaron now lives in Southern California with his wife and two children, where he practices law.

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