A Memoir for Women in Every Season
What Remains After Life Breaks Open
A River Runs Through Us is an honest, unhurried memoir about loss, faith, family, and the quiet strength that carries us forward.
For every woman who has ever weathered heartbreak, held on through uncertainty, and wondered what comes next—this story is for you.
What Readers Are Saying
I'm Michelle Thooft — an author, English Instructor, and mother living on Minnesota's Iron Range.
For more than 10 years, I've taught college composition, and year after year I saw the same need: students arriving in my classroom without the writing skills or confidence they needed to succeed. I began slowing down, going back to the basics, and teaching the foundational skills students were expected to know—but had often never been taught, or never had the opportunity to truly master. Eventually, that work became The Write Road— a complete Composition curriculum designed to prepare college-bound high school students for the writing they'll be expected to do in college.
What Remains After Life Breaks Open
A memoir in vignettes — honest, unhurried, and close to the bone. If you've carried shame about who you were as a mother, a daughter, or a woman, this book will sit beside you in it. Available in paperback and hardcover.
A River Runs Through Us:
Write the River: A Companion Journal
A guided journal that invites you into your own story — one honest scene at a time. Using memoir-style prompts and a simple framework of forgiveness and truth, this journal is healing work disguised as writing. Available in paperback and as an instant PDF download.
The Bundle: Memoir + Journal
The complete experience. Read Michelle's story, then write your own. Perfect for individual healing work or as a women's small group study — everything your group needs, no prep required. Order the complete set here— hardcover memoir + journal, personally signed.
Book One of the Pink House Adventures: Skeleton Street — Available Now!
A charming picture book about a little girl, a pink house, a mysterious sound in the night — and the grandmother who finally helps her face it. For the children and grandchildren in your life.