Son helps Dad …

… “Memoir is a Strange Word When you Don’t Remember a Whole Lot” – Tim O’Brien on How Memory, History, and Literature Inform his Joyous New Book » Public Libraries Online. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

I had been writing these little love letters to the kids for ten years or so. I had pretty much given up writing, except for that. They were all very short—maybe ten of these things in the desk drawer. Tad, my younger boy, saw them and asked if I was writing a book. I said, “Maybe.” He said, “Well, you ought to call it what it is, call it your maybe book.” So it began with those words out of a kid’s mouth. Hi