Thinking about turning 82 is both positive and negative. The positive part, of course, is that I’m still alive. I’ve outlived several classmates who’d be the same age. I’m still able to walk and talk and see and hear and smell and taste and feel. I do not take these capabilities for granted. But I …
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Memories Never Made
I'm a big proponent of writing your life story; I often think about the phrase that when we die, our words die with us. My husband and I recently took a trip to Minnesota near where my paternal grandparents had lived. I never met them, or my aunt or uncle. On our trip, we were …
Another Reason to Write Memoir
Do you think your life is too humdrum for a memoir? Dave Eggers, in The Autobiographer's Handbook1, emphasizes one reason you should write: "…because you will someday die, and without your story on paper, most of it will be forgotten." (p. 1) He says we strive to preserve the world's history from antiquity on for …
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