My elderly aunt finished her memoirs. She mailed me a photocopy.
It was great fun to read--she's always been entertaining storyteller
with interesting experiences and a great understanding of people. She's
97 now and lives in an assisted living community where a fellow
resident helped her write up her life stories. She calls them her
"memoirs," and indeed they are--an an act of remembering and a legacy
for the family.
Memoir comes from the Anglo-French word memoirie
(from the fifteenth century),meaning "memory" or "note," an "account of
someone's life." A wonderful gift to pass on to those who know you and
who want to hear your past.