manuscript Archives - Karen DeBonis

When your brain can’t multitask.

By Karen DeBonis | March 18, 2019 |

My brain can’t multitask. It has folders for important information, and if the folder is closed, new data doesn’t get in.

Talking with my adult children.

By Karen DeBonis | April 5, 2018 |

Now that my memoir is becoming more of a reality, with sections of my manuscript getting closer and closer to completion, it’s provided opportunities for our family to talk about what happened two decades ago in ways that we couldn’t back then when we were stumbling through it. Matt was eleven when he was diagnosed…

Blessings on my memoir.

By Karen DeBonis | March 16, 2018 |

I asked my parents to read part of my memoir manuscript–the story about how ill-prepared I was as a person and a mom for my son’s rumble with a brain tumor.