So what? And other helpful questions
When a particular memory invites us to write, we should ask ourselves: 1. Why this memory now? With so many memories surfacing all the time, why did this one take hold? It is here that insight can be gleaned. 2. Who is this me that is remembering? Reflecting on a memory is, in fact, a conversation between who we are […]
My memory, my story
The nature of memory—unreliable and changeable—means the stories of our life are just that, stories not facts. Just think of tangling with the shared, contradictory, memories of a sibling. An exercise in eighth grade history revealed to me that there is no one story for any given event. The school I went to began with […]