Memoir Archives - CHRISSIE ANDERSON PETERS

New Bed

Nov 13, 2024 | Duran Duran, Memoir

I have a brand-new bed! Yes, I’m excited. I’d been sleeping on my other mattress for over fifteen years, and it had grown flimsy and caused hip aches on a regular basis. I’ve been hinting to Russ that I needed a new one for months but was getting nowhere. We had a...

Cleaning Out

Nov 8, 2024 | Memoir

We recently spent almost a week trying to get started cleaning out Russ’ parents’ house in the Northwest suburbs of Chicago. When my mom passed away, we didn’t have to do this. The doublewide on the God-forsaken Hill had been abandoned and was my sister Sarah’s...

Can You Feel It

Nov 1, 2024 | Memoir, Music

On November 1, a long-time dream came true. I got to see the remaining Jacksons (sans Jermaine and Randy) perform a show at the Hard Rock Casino in Cincinnati, Ohio. I had thought that Jermaine would be there, so I was initially a little disappointed, but once the...

On Being Tired

Oct 17, 2024 | Memoir

“She did not want to move, or to speak. She wanted to rest, to lean, to dream. She felt very tired.” – Virginia Woolf “She did not want to move, or to speak. She wanted to rest, to lean, to dream. She felt very tired.” – Virginia Woolf I feel this...

35th High School Class Reunion

Oct 13, 2024 | Memoir

After months of preparations and excited planning, the 35th Class Reunion of the Class of 1989 met in Tazewell, Virginia, over the weekend, some members coming from a far away as Alabama (Jeff Price), Arkansas (Robbie Yost), and Florida (Kenny Lowe). Some class...

INTERVIEW: Linda Hooper and Sharon Shadrick

Oct 10, 2024 | Memoir, Writing Life

What do eighth graders in a small Appalachian town in south-central Tennessee know about the Holocaust? More than you’d imagine. I just got back from Whitwell, TN, about thirty-five minutes northwest of Chattanooga, where I interviewed co-authors Linda Hooper and...