Saving My Grandmother From Alzheimer's
What is a memoir? An autobiographical account of one aspect of a person's life. Not the author's entire life. Peter Bricklebank, a published author and teacher, prefers the term personal narrative over the memoir. A person doesn't need to be "a ripe old age" to write a personal narrative. The term describes the reflection of an "on-going story" of life. Bricklebank's perspective helped when I took Smith magazine's Six-Word Memoir challenge. I didn't know what I wanted to write about. Trying to pinpoint a moment of my life to chronicle was like trying to pick my all-time favorite book or song. There's just too many to choose from. So, as an ongoing story of my life I chose the relationship with my paternal grandmother. It's my attempt to fight her Alzheimer's disease by writing everything I can remember about her down. Very few of my childhood memories exist without her. Coming to gri...