The Beans, the Memoir, and the Wild Way of Creativity

Memoir in Motion: Neurodiverse Parenting, Italian Roots, and the Untamed Path of Writing

The ancestral beans have done what beans do—they shot up like, well, like string beans! Now I know exactly where that phrase originated. I didn’t expect their speed when I planted them, nor when I vowed to finish the final chapter of my Italian-American memoir before the first harvest of these heirloom beans.

Being a novice at legume horticulture, I thou…