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16 responses to “Open Thread Update: Title Your Autobiography”

1. I am now retired but I worked for the City a few blocks east of the former site of the World Trade Center. I had a compressed schedule and would use the Borders bookstore at 5 World Trade as a combination breakfast nook and lending library. One morning, I cut my breakfast short in order to go down to my office and firm up a presentation. About an hour later, we were called into the Director’s office and asked to watch the closed-circuit TV: there, we saw what looked like a plane crashing into

   Reply to Kathryn Nocerino

2. I’m a 69-year-old quad with severe Cerebral Palsy and wrote my own biography with a head stick during 2007-2010.

   It tells about my childhood, schooling, travels and up to my marriage in 1996.
   I think it is a very interesting book, because it shows what the human being is capable of.

   My book is titled “Beyond The Wheelchair.”

   Reply to Gail Sanfilippo

   1. That is inspiring Gail! Thank you, disability is new to me and I am always trying to live my life beyond this ever-evolving pain.
      Colleen

      Reply to Colleen Patrice Jones

3. Maybe my title could be “Nine Lives and Counting?”. I have lived so many places, for so many reasons: sometimes to honor existence, sometimes to defy it, sometimes to lose myself, sometimes to find myself, sometimes to open a door, sometimes to close a door. What has this nomad learned after 71 years? Maybe there is a story here. The story could start at the end. When I ask myself: Who are you? Where is your home? Are you settled now? Are you satisfied?

   Reply to Nancy Pivarunas

   1. Mine is (I’m writing now) Lessons I learned. Maybe I will add lessons. I learned that changed my life. I had a very unique birth, and a brilliant with a biological mother and adopted mother and her stepmother. There is a great story right there.

      Reply to Maddie Blackett

4. I’m writing my autobiography and the name of it is Buttercups and Daisies. Its about growing up in Ireland in the 1940’s.

   Reply to Marie

   1. sounds lovely!!!

      Reply to Virge

   2. I want to hear more, Marie. Keep on writing and share.

      Reply to Elisabeth De Nitto

   3. It is important to write our memories of how things used to be. I hope you write what you remember and that young people can learn from it. Your title is lovely.

      Reply to Nancy Pivarunas

5. Great idea for looking back in life and at the same time learning how we actually might be coloring our years with either negative or positive attitudes. This could be a start for self-growth at a later stage in life,and a chance to perhaps correct ways of thinking ,if necessary. Survival is a privilege ..?

   Reply to Adventurist

   1. I agree with what you say about autobiography being a powerful and surprising self-discovery. But what do you mean by “survival is a privilege”?

      Reply to Nancy Pivarunas

6. The Open Thread of getting a title for one’s autobiography is quite a coincidence; I’m applying something similar for my kid brother to write his autobiography.
   He’s had the rare opportunity in his distinguished career to report to both Gen. Colin Powell, and to Dr. Anthony Fauci.
   For anyone in terested in getting started w their own autobiography, recommend reading the LinkedIn.com article (a five minute read) with title of :
   “Defining Moments: What are yours ?”
   Best,
   P J Gammarano, Sr.

   Reply to Paul J Gammarano, Sr.

   1. Yes, I agree that by focussing on “defining moments,” we not only do some compelling writing that others can relate to, but we pull our lives together, and make sense of it all, which can not necessarily be finding the person we thought we were, but discovering that we are someone much more interesting, creative, complex, successful, admirable … . A lot of people say they have lived a simple life, but life is never simple, is it?

      Reply to Nancy Pivarunas

7. I was harmed by prescription drugs and medical gaslighting. My title would be “pHARMed: Healing the Shackles of the Past.” It’s my tribute to the Henrietta Lacks family, Tuskegee Syphilis.experiment and all the other still unknown injuries inflicted on Black, Brown and Indigenous people and justified by the “doctrine of discovery.”

   Reply to Barbara Tunstall

   1. Unfortnately, ALL of us (humans) are a part of that ongoing “experiment” of Rx drugs and their effects–both positive (healing) and negative (can be lethal), going across every demographic, and despite FDA regulations & other “guidelines”/requirements.
      Your expression “medical gaslighting” can be quite true, and there is the never-ending challenge for us all to try ask the timely questions concerning the medical treatments we are given, or such medically planned treatment.
      Best,
      PJG,Sr,; MA, JD

      Reply to Paul J Gammarano, Sr.; MA, JD

   2. I understand somewhat. I find too much “health care” has little to do with deep healing and durable wellness. It sounds as if you have figured ways of moving on with “self -discovery and independence from a medical world that does not meet your personal needs. I am happy for you.

      Reply to Nancy Pivarunas