Category: Legacy

The Villainization of America: Why the Story We Tell Ourselves Matters

America's failures are real. This documents the operation that uses them to build a permanent indictment, who built it, who funds it, what it costs.

READ MORE »

Writing a Memoir from Journals, Letters, and Records

In his nineties I sat with my grandfather and his lifetime of journals to write his memoir, and discovered the story I grew up on, that he survived Bataan, was wrong; the truth was a march through Manila, no less…

READ MORE »

SEE » Memoirs for Seniors series

The Dead Don’t Need Stuff: Decluttering Without Destroying What Matters

Forty-five years of decluttering lessons from a collector, not a minimalist. $35,000 eBay purge. Seven major campaigns. Psychology, room-by-room strategy, and

READ MORE »

Behind the Wire: The True Story of Frank Hoeffer II, Prisoner of War

The true story of a Navy cook captured at Corregidor, 1942. Three years and four months as a Japanese POW. Written from memory by his grandson at age 65.

READ MORE »