Oprah sneezed??? Is it on YouTube? Can I buy the dvd?

But it doesn’t really matter either way if you can get on Oprah.

As I read it, this advice suggests that, though one may never be entirely through dealing with the issue to be memoired, the author would do well (as I suggest above) to really confront what happened, to gain some perspective on things such that they might be able to develop a language that’s mature enough to handle their past without glossing over or refusing to engage hard-to-bear parts of the experience that, if confronted, could 1) deepen their own understanding of the event(s) as they 2) reveal aspects of personal/communal/relational identity in ways the author may not otherwise have access to and that 3) (as Patricia suggests) can be of greatest value to someone who may be experiencing something similar. Part of this process, I believe, includes reading other memoirs to see how others have approached the task and thus positioning oneself in the generic tradition so the story can be told to greatest effect to the widest audience. To do otherwise is to risk, perhaps, publishing a haphazard self-narrative that hasn’t quite grown into its full rhetorical potential.

Just a few thoughts.

Wow. Lucky Cedar Fort.

Thanks for the aside, MoJo.