Writing Memoir

I had busied myself building my business and in many ways neglected building my family. I wondered what my young family would recall of me. What would they say my legacy had been to them as a husband and a father if I was to suffer another stroke or heart attack and pass away?

The good news is, almost everyone in my book is safely tucked away six feet under; but beware the perils of the first time memoirist: not everyone can be dead!

I had been trying to write my story for several years, haunted by one friend's comment. "Great," he had said to me, drinking a cup of coffee in my kitchen, "another memoir about a mother who dies from cancer."

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