Speaking of Memoir

Ron often comes home from work with three or four articles earmarked for me that he found in various newspapers during his commute (he takes a train). Today he gave me a copy of this article. It's about a man, Harry Bernstein, who began writing a book at age 93. You gotta love that right away. But it gets better. Harry writes memoir.

His first book -- The Invisible Wall -- is about growing up in a Jewish family with Christian families across the street (his sister falls in love with a boy from the "other" side). And it talks about how his mother tried to protect her kids from their alcoholic father.

After many rejections his book found the right home and was published when Harry was 96. His second memoir is almost finished, and he's thinking of writing a third book about his marriage to his late wife (of nearly seven decades) who died of cancer in 2002.