A lovely article in North Shore Living Magazine about me winning the Allen and Unwin prize to help me fine-tune my biography of Emeritus Professor Michael Cousins AO, one of the world’s leading pain medicine researchers, clinicians, educators and advocates. The book is titled, Breaking the pain barrier: The story of Michael J. Cousins.
It was Socrates who said the unexamined life is not worth living. He preferred the death sentence to being unable to examine his life. He may even have said, ‘Writing my story is more important to me than living.’ Many would have you believe the past should stay in the past, but the wise know […]
It can be daunting trying to write your life story—sifting through a mountain of files, photos, letters and memorabilia and organising them into a coherent narrative. So overwhelming in fact that many potential memoirists procrastinate and may never end up writing their life story. If you write your life story or memoir, you will realise […]
One of the most satisfying ways you can share the lessons from your well-lived life is through writing a memoir. Today the publishing market is flooded with sensationalist and trashy memoirs of celebrities and politicians, but you want to write a meaningful memoir that touches the hearts of your readers and inspires them. Writing a […]
