My Memoir Project

Preserve What Should Not Be Forgotten

November 2025

November 18, 2025

In the Sky and Beyond

Objects in flight amaze me. And sometimes birds, too. One Saturday morning in November of 2025, I needed to walk to our mailbox to fetch a replacement piece for the only Liberty Puzzle Kathryn and I own. The piece belonged to our St. Andrew’s handmade wooden jigsaw puzzle. Ah, the world-famous golf links complex in… Continue reading

Places From My Life

Aviation Stories, Bald Eagles, Blue Angels, Everyday Moments, Finding Meaning in the Ordinary, Flight, Idaho Life, memoir writing, Personal Essays, Thunderbirds
November 14, 2025

Clear Thinking Becomes Clear Writing

Zinsser nailed it. “Clear thinking becomes clear writing; one can’t exist without the other.” You can feel the snap of truth in that line, can’t you? Writing a memoir isn’t just about dredging up memories—it’s about making sense of them. The clearer your mind, the clearer your sentences. The fuzzier your thoughts, the more your… Continue reading

Advice

clear writing, creative nonfiction, how to write a memoir, memoir writing, My Memoir Project, On Writing Well, personal storytelling, William Zinsser, writing clarity, writing process, writing tips
November 12, 2025

Dialogue

Ah, dialogue. The pulse, the lifeblood, the caffeinated jolt of realism that makes a memoir dance instead of plod. Tom Wolfe—yes, the white-suited ringmaster himself—understood that dialogue wasn’t merely talk. It was theatre. It was anthropology. It was America running its mouth. Read The Right Stuff or The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and listen—really listen—to… Continue reading

Advice

character voice, creative nonfiction, learn to write, memoir writing, New Journalism, storytelling techniques, Tom Wolfe, writing advice, writing dialogue, writing like a journalist

November 2025

In the Sky and Beyond

Clear Thinking Becomes Clear Writing

Dialogue

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