Memoir Leads to Exploring the Past

Exploring the past

Writing a memoir is like opening a window into your life. It can also help clear the fog on windows of the past. Writing my own story in my memoir Nothing LikeNormal (published by Black Opal Press on November 14) caused me to wonder about the tales of my parents and ancestors and what they could tell me about my own life.

My maternal line

While my father’s genealogy had been thoroughly researched by his brother and sister, I knew there was very little recorded about my ma...