The students, all of them senior citizens, are learning how to write life stories in a weekly class at the Senior Center. Fields tells her students that everyone has an interesting story to tell. It really forces you to find meaning and significance in your life. When we're living life we're too busy to understand it. When you look back and return to those events you find much greater understanding and meaning.
Many writers say writing is living twice.
The life stories written in Fields' class will be compiled into a booklet. I want to record these lives.