Far into reading Nightline host Dan Harris’ 10% Happier, a memoir of how he came to the practice of meditation, I realized that his Way...

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I love doing the research for my novels. I can and do lose days at a time finding and reading background information from which facts, or...

Because I write family stories, I've recently become very interested in the forms of memoir and creative nonfiction. I mostly write...

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Welcome to the public face of my creative flame! Take a tour around the site barbarastarknemon.com and learn about my upcoming book,...