Along The Seam
ALONG THE SEAM is a podcast from author Rachael Cerrotti where she explores topics of inherited memory, family history and intergenerational storytelling with guests from all corners of the globe. These are conversations about conflict infused with hope and kindness. Along The Seam is the examined place in between past and present, our old selves and new selves, and moving from one space towards another.
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Along The Seam
15. Mira Ptacin - The Love You Have
*To Note: ALONG THE SEAM was formerly named The Memory Generation. In this first season, you will hear Rachael use that title in the intro and outro.*
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Mira Ptacin is a writer, educator and activist who lives on an island in Maine with her husband, two children and a whole bunch of rescue animals. She teaches creative writing at Colby College, leads memoir workshops to incarcerated women at the Maine Correctional Center, and is a frequent contributor to the New York Times. She has written two books - The In-Betweens: The Spiritualists, Mediums, and Legends of Camp Etna as well as the award-winning memoir Poor Your Soul. She describes herself as writing about ‘the uterus and the American Dream’ and has written extensively about grief, motherhood and family storytelling. In this conversation, we dig into Mira's 2016 memoir Poor Your Soul. The book weaves together the story of the loss of her brother when she was just a teenager and then the loss of an unborn child when she was in her twenties.
Mira & Rachael recorded this conversation on October 9, 2022 in Portland, Maine.
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