My aha moment was writing my memoirs. I always wanted to be sure the truth was told about my life. And I realized, the only one who was going to make that truth was me.

I feel joy and sadness writing it, depending on what part of my life I’m writing about. It’s a great sense of satisfaction. I have enjoyed every minute of it.

It’s already led me to write more. I’ve written some short stories now too, but those will stay in my file somewhere.

An aha moment is a very personal thing, of course. It’s a sudden decision to do something, or a realization of something in your life. Maybe someone of a more religious bent would call it an epiphany. In my case, it was that I wanted to tell the truth about my life.

For years I’d been promising myself that I’d write my memoirs. I didn’t know who’d read them, except for my children and grandchildren. But I knew they had to be written.