The Power of Memoirs

memoir is the single greatest portal to self discovery. I was a young New York Times employee when my mother got sick with the disease that no one understood. It's now understood to be Alzheimer's disease. And after that, in the last in the 40 years of my career since then, I've written a lot of pieces of memoir,. All of which allow me to explore things that I didn't actually understand when I sat down to write about them. and I do understand them a bit better now.