Thursday, June 11, 2015

History Makes a Memoir

I recently had an opportunity which I turned down to learn about writing memoirs.  From rough draft to finished published tome.   Although at first it seemed exciting to me,  I suddenly had a moment of doubt,  oh heck, it was the phrase, " you can be my beta tester." that threw me back into reality.  What I wondered was a beta tester?  Now I could have researched and found out but instead I quietly walked away, step at a time.  Plus I was going to be pretty busy in the next few months and I am not sure that I would have the time to devote to it.   Those are my excuses and I am sticking to them.

Since I'm lax in keeping up with the the three blogs I do have, I thought I would begin the rough draft on this one as let my life story is hardly front page news, more the next to the last below the fold of a community weekly.   Nonetheless there is no time like the present to begin I guess,  so I will use this format to begin the Memoir which is actually just a history for my children and grandchildren should the latter ever come to be.  The title will come later.

So if anyone is following this.. feel free to abandon ship now or after the first draft of the early years of my oh so ( yawning here) exciting life.  Or you can hang in with me and offer any advice, as I will either gracefully take any or all comments on this new venture.

So the next time I'll be here it will be to start this blogging memoir of my 62plus years.  I am sure I will forget some things,   and have poetic freedom with others.  I have noted over the years that some folks in my life do not remember events as they occurred and I often wondered if we actually are focusing in on the same events.  But hey this is my blog and my memories.  I just hope I do it justice.
So for now I'll bid adieu.
Maybe next time I"ll have a title.