“Good Gnus and Bad Gnus”

I am motivated to record my journey for posterity. Life is one long journey. There are several smaller voyages embedded.

Elsa Maxwell sums it up very nicely: ‘Existence is a party. You join after it’s started, and you leave before it’s finished.’

The motivation came from Mr Ben Taaffe. I enrolled in a Memoir Writing Course at the Australian Club in Sydney with Ben as the tutor. I’m glad I did. I needed all the help I could get! Ben proved to be an excellent teacher; the very best I have ever had in English. He could inspire even if you did not know it at the time. I adduce my six ‘E’s: encouragement, enrichment, enlargement, embellishment, enhancement, enlightenment’.

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FRONT COVER
DEDICATION
TABLE OF CONTENTS
MEMOIR PLAN
FOREWORD
PROLOGUE
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
CHAPTER XIII
EPILOGUE
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
BACK COVER