Baby+Memoir+1

==== There is a great chapter in Natalie Goldberg's //Old Friend From Far Away// titled "Baby Memoir" (278-279). Isn't that what an essay in a class like this is, a baby memoir? What a neat way to describe it, a fresh analogy for something we can learn to dread as students. ====

==== The chapter will be your guide. It contains everything you need to write this essay. In the process of reading //Old Friend From Far Away//, you have written to a number of the prompts. Perhaps there's something from one of those freewrites that has energy, has possibility. Expand on it. ====