The Rest of Our Lives: A Memoir
Now Available
I’m excited to introduce you to my new memoir, The Rest of Our Lives, which takes a look at aging. It doesn’t matter whether we’re turning 30 or 60 or 80, each birthday takes us by surprise. But we’re also still the same. Move the pieces around and see the patterns. The messy, complicated questions we faced when we were young foreshadow the messy, complicated questions we come to grips with now. Young age. Old age. Let’s look at how we slide along with the decades.
”At 80, I felt I’d written everything I had to write. What was left? I was sad to give up writing. Writing keeps me nice. If I’m not writing, you don’t want to be around me. But then it came to me: If I tell students in my memoir workshops, “Write about what keeps you up at night,” I need to take my own advice. I was thinking a lot about aging. I needed to write about it.
What inspired The Rest of Our Lives?(Photo by Mallory Cash)
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