The book has been ideal for our purpose. Lois Daniel's approach to
writing about your life is to suggest that you write in bits and pieces, rather than starting with
your birth and what I call "plowing through your life" from birth to the present day. That can be
a chore for many; whereas writing about interesting incidents becomes an enjoyable
challenge.

Grandma Moses, in her autobiography, wrote, "I have written my life in small sketches,
a little today, a little yesterday, all the things from childhood on through the years, good ones
and unpleasant ones, that is how they come out and that is how we have to take them."

That is the
approach suggested by Lois Daniel. And the author makes it easy for persons who shy away because,
they say, "I'm no writer." She suggests that you need not be a "writer", but merely to "write as
you talk."

Our weekly class is now entering its eighth year, with 43 participants, both women
and men. Since the class started, the members have purchased between 250 and 300 of her books, and,
without exception, they are pleased. They find the book to be interesting, while at the same time
it provides many suggestions and examples to motivate the writer.