Relying on memory to write a memoir may not be the best approach. You can experience long stretches of nothingness—no images to grab onto as a way of entering the story. Unfortunately, when memory has nothing to offer, thinking mind steps in.
“Did we take a train directly from Florence to Helsinki?” it asks. Obviously thinking mind sees itself as a colleague of memory.
When memory shrugs her pretty shoulders, thinking mind responds.
“Probably not. That’s a long distance for a single train ride, right?”