CHERIE CLAIRE

Memory is subjective. What we see through the eyes of our youth can be so different from mature understanding. I think back on times when I was certain I was right, when my views were clouded by determined judgment and no one could tell me otherwise. I later found out, through maturity and wisdom, that I had gotten the whole situation wrong. The beauty in learning things through experience can be expressed so well in writing. We can relate incidents from those early years, de

Which made me think that writing a book is a lot like living. You might reply, “art reflects life,” but it’s more like art reflects the livi