For me, the important events and episodes happened to be on a time-line
by location: the places where my family resided over the years. I spent
the first twenty-five years of my life in the city where I was born and
raised. Afterward, a few years in a distant city, then on to another and
still another, each invariably distant and different than before.
After I retired, I took the time to make notes on as many important events
that I could recall, and keyed each to a geographic location. I gave each
episode a title or sketched a brief outline that would stimulate my
memory to the place and help me to talk about it. My list began with city
A: my preschool and school years (with several sub-headings because
those times had been chaotic); the Great Depression, the first job, etc.
City B: why I was there; the job; etc. I continued on to the next and the
next.
When I finished my initial list of 'cities' or 'countries' and numbered
them I found that I had more than two hundred events, episodes or time
periods. I arranged them so that one followed the other as they had
occurred or were otherwise linked.
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