We are reading this short article, “What’s In A Name?: A Lot As It Turns Out” about the comic book artist Max Pauson  because most of us don’t even consider not having a name. This article by Erik Eckholm (note: this is not a memoir) explores the life experience of a writerborn in difficult circumstances […]

In this short memoir (an Opinion column in the New York Times), America, Say My Name, the prize-winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen writes about his history with his name, how people often don’t take the time to respect or try to learn his name,  and how names have the power to change the culture in […]

In her memoir, “Getting From There to Here: One Woman’s Journey from the South Bronx to the Academy,” Dr. Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz discusses the importance of writing an educational biography to better understand what informs our educational experience and to learn what we value through this experience. Sealey-Ruiz discusses how her parents’ own frustrated experiences with education […]