Andrew, congratulations on your Pulitzer nomination for your memoir. Honestly, I am not surprised at all. It's actually quite validating to me as a reader, since I was of the opinion that yours was one of the best - if not the best - memoir I had read all last year. And I read prolifically, rotating through one book to the next.
I truly appreciate your voice. I have read through some of the notes I took on your memoir, the segments that struck me the most, and what makes your story fantastic is that your message is both timely and timeless. I strive for the same as I work through the fourth draft of my own memoir.
I am not a journalist and don't have any professional degrees related to writing or editing, nor do I have any prestigious bylines. That can be intimidating to a person who questions whether her work is "good enough" for the market today, even excellent. I just don't know, but what I do know is that in reading your book, I not only gained insight into the craft of writing memoir, but I also became a more attuned reader - and human. You made me think. I like that best of all.
Keep putting your superb work out there, Andrew. I am in your corner.
Interesting article. I knew nothing about the AVP. Was it originally designed with the gaming market in mind? Can people see through it and walk around wearing it or do you need to be stationary to use it? I sent my son a link to the article because his roommate's mom has albinism. Son Andrew and his roommate are both software engineers but I don't think either of them are into gaming.
I wonder how older people who did not grow up with computers do with the APV? There are a whole lot of baby boomers entering the disability years. I've noticed even people a few years younger than I am (I'm 68) seem to catch on to computer stuff a bit quicker.
Glad to see there's another family where father and son bonded over computer geekery and not sports. We're just not a sports type of family either. Conversations with my son and husband, a retired software engineer, always seem to devolve into computer speak somehow.
Andrew, congratulations on your Pulitzer nomination for your memoir. Honestly, I am not surprised at all. It's actually quite validating to me as a reader, since I was of the opinion that yours was one of the best - if not the best - memoir I had read all last year. And I read prolifically, rotating through one book to the next.
I truly appreciate your voice. I have read through some of the notes I took on your memoir, the segments that struck me the most, and what makes your story fantastic is that your message is both timely and timeless. I strive for the same as I work through the fourth draft of my own memoir.
I am not a journalist and don't have any professional degrees related to writing or editing, nor do I have any prestigious bylines. That can be intimidating to a person who questions whether her work is "good enough" for the market today, even excellent. I just don't know, but what I do know is that in reading your book, I not only gained insight into the craft of writing memoir, but I also became a more attuned reader - and human. You made me think. I like that best of all.
Keep putting your superb work out there, Andrew. I am in your corner.
holy smokes, really appreciate this comment, jeannie!! and you definitely don't need prestigious bylines or professional degrees to do this work!!
That's very encouraging. Thank you for that, Andrew. I really appreciate your literary integrity and your literary citizenship.
Interesting article. I knew nothing about the AVP. Was it originally designed with the gaming market in mind? Can people see through it and walk around wearing it or do you need to be stationary to use it? I sent my son a link to the article because his roommate's mom has albinism. Son Andrew and his roommate are both software engineers but I don't think either of them are into gaming.
I wonder how older people who did not grow up with computers do with the APV? There are a whole lot of baby boomers entering the disability years. I've noticed even people a few years younger than I am (I'm 68) seem to catch on to computer stuff a bit quicker.
Glad to see there's another family where father and son bonded over computer geekery and not sports. We're just not a sports type of family either. Conversations with my son and husband, a retired software engineer, always seem to devolve into computer speak somehow.