Guides, encouragement, and practical steps for seniors capturing their life stories in a memoir, whether it’s personal milestones, family history, or hard-won lessons. Drawn from memoir projects including a 92-year-old resort developer, the series is about building a legacy that lasts.
Memoirs for SeniorsAt seventeen I wrote my first memoir, my grandfather's, a Navy cook captured at Corregidor who survived the POW camps and a march through Manila. The family's version was secondhand and partly wrong, so I interviewed him for dozens of…
Memoirs for SeniorsIn 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…
Memoirs for SeniorsMost memoir attempts collapse in the middle, not from weak material but because the writer started before knowing what the book was actually about. Across 54+ memoirs, every one began not with writing but with discovery, hours of interviews finding…
Memoirs for SeniorsThe people who can verify your stories are getting older, and some are already gone, the brother who was there, the roommate, the mother who knows the family history you never asked about. A memoir is not just your memory;…
Memoirs for SeniorsMy grandfather never spoke about the war, three years a prisoner, marched through Manila, held in Japanese camps, not at dinner, not when asked directly. It stayed locked inside for decades, until one day I asked the right question and…
Memoirs for SeniorsChristmas is brutally hard to write, because its cultural weight pulls you toward generic warmth, the lights, the cookies, the sentiment every reader has heard a thousand times and feels nothing for. The fix is specificity: not Christmas in general…
Memoirs for SeniorsThe hardest part of a memoir is never the prose; it is the people, the parent, the ex, the business partner whose presence the story needs and whose inclusion creates a problem no amount of craft can fully solve. All…
Memoirs for SeniorsDecades of experience only become a readable memoir with structure. How to choose an organizing principle, decide what stays, and shape raw memory into a book someone wants to read.
Memoirs for SeniorsShould the memoir run chronologically, circle a single theme, or jump across time? Nearly every memoir project hits this wall, a lifetime of material and no obvious shape, and the wrong choice can turn a remarkable life into a book…
Memoirs for SeniorsI have ghostwritten 54+ books for CEOs and leaders, but the story that mattered most came on my grandfather's back porch in 1977. For seventeen years the family called him difficult and gruff, yet he cooked meals that felt like…
The systematic thinking I built to predict my father's explosions turned out to be the same thinking that reads a failing system. Nobody warned me the skill would transfer.
Memoirs for SeniorsYou want to know about the war, he said, making that familiar sucking sound through his teeth. It didn't start with Pearl Harbor for me.
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