Category Archives: Bite Size Memoir

A Merciful Interview: Bite Size Memoir

Posted on December 1, 2014 by Sherri Matthews

Money is on my mind. Not so much because Christmas is fast approaching, but because of my disgust at the way the media whipped us up into a frenzy of Black Friday shopping last week. Watching the news that night, … Continue reading →

Posted in Bite Size Memoir, Family Memoirs, Pets | Tagged Bite Size Memoir, Black Friday, Dogs, Family Life, Family Memoirs, hope, Interviews, Mercy, Money, Musings, Pets | 119 Comments

Make My Day: Bite Size Memoir

Posted on November 17, 2014 by Sherri Matthews

What makes your day? I have to admit, the first time I read Lisa’s prompt for her bite size memoir challenge, the first image that struck me was of my old friend Clint, or should I say Dirty Harry. But … Continue reading →

Posted in Bite Size Memoir, Blogging, My Dad's Alcoholic Prison, Writing | Tagged Alcholism, Bite Size Memoir, Blogging, Clint Eastwood, crime, fathers, Memoir, prison, writing | 99 Comments

Bad Hair Day: Bite Size Memoir

Posted on November 3, 2014 by Sherri Matthews

After sharing all those photos of pumpkins and happy memories from a life once lived in California, our Halloween this year turned out to be a very quiet one, with only a handful of trick or treaters. Still, daughter got … Continue reading →

Posted in Bite Size Memoir, Family Traditions, Memoir, Writing | Tagged 1970s, Bite Size Memoir, Bonfire Night, California, Childhood memories, Family Traditions, Hair, Hairstyles, Halloween, Memoir, writing | 95 Comments

Crazy Alien: Bite-Size Memoir

Posted on October 20, 2014 by Sherri Matthews

Whenever I think of anything to do with immigration, I get a shiver of crazy. My first brush with American immigration happened when I turned up alone at Dulles International Airport newly arrived from London. It was 1980, my boyfriend … Continue reading →

Posted in Bite Size Memoir, Memoir, Travel | Tagged Alien, America, Bite Size Memoir, Cinema, Citizenship, Emigration, Immigration, Ipswich, Memoir, Movies, travel | 92 Comments

Holiday Reading, Ghosts And The Norfolk Broads

Posted on July 24, 2014 by Sherri Matthews

Holiday reading. What beats a book crammed full of twists and turn, thrills and spills to keep us occupied while lazing on the beach or reclining on a deck chair by the side of a pool somewhere hot and Mediterranean? … Continue reading →

Posted in Bite Size Memoir, Childhood Memories, Norfolk Broads | Tagged Bite Size Memoir, Books, Childhood memories, Ghost Story, Holiday, Horning, Norfolk Broads, Reading, Sailing, St. Benet's Abbey, Summer, Vacation | 71 Comments

Bite Size Memoir: Mum’s 10 out of 10

Posted on July 17, 2014 by Sherri Matthews

What is my 10 out of 10? I ask this question because this is what Lisa has asked of us this week for her Bite Size Memoir challenge. In celebration of her tenth ‘bite’ prompt (somehow I’ve manage eight of … Continue reading →

Posted in Bite Size Memoir, Childhood Memories | Tagged Bite Size Memoir, Childhood memories, Children, College, Computers, Education, Family Life, Kindergarten, laughter, Memoir, mothers, School | 70 Comments

Bite-Size Memoir: Cycling and Sherlock Holmes

Posted on July 10, 2014 by Sherri Matthews

When Lisa set her cycling prompt for this week’s Bite Size Memoir challenge, the first thoughts that came to mind were not so much the riding on but the falling off a bicycle. My first bike was for my seventh … Continue reading →

Posted in Bite Size Memoir, Childhood Memories, Family Life | Tagged Bicycles, Bite Size Memoir, Childhood memories, Cycling, Family Life, Girl Guides, Memoir, Sherlock Holmes, The Hound of the Baskervilles | 104 Comments

Dressing Up – My Favourite Thing!

Posted on July 3, 2014 by Sherri Matthews

Dressing up has always been something I’ve enjoyed. My grandfather used to take cine film of us as kids, and in one scene you can see me as a three-year old in my sticky-out dress, clopping about in my mother’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Asperger's Syndrome, Bite Size Memoir, Family Life | Tagged Asperger's Syndrome, Bite Size Memoir, Costumes, Dressing Up, Family Life, joy, laughter, Parties | 81 Comments

Bite Size Memoir Number 7: Childhood Illness

Posted on June 19, 2014 by Sherri Matthews

Where has the week gone? I can’t believe that it’s already time again to turn in my entry for Lisa’s Bite Size Memoir challenge, the theme of which this week is ‘Childhood Illness’. As soon as I saw this prompt, … Continue reading →

Posted in Bite Size Memoir, Childhood Memories | Tagged Bite Size Memoir, Childhood memories, Childhool Illness, Hospital, Memoir, Operation, Tonsils | 48 Comments

Bite Size Memoir Number 6: First Jobs

Posted on June 12, 2014 by Sherri Matthews

Lisa has set us up with the theme ‘First Jobs’ for this week’s bite size memoir. I’m looking forward to reading everybody’s experiences, should be very interesting. Here’s mine, in 150 words (no more, no less!): First Jobs Fresh out … Continue reading →