Reflection on Writer's Block

My freshmen started a unit on memoir. I don't read a lot of memoir, as a rule, I had a bad formative experience with in middle school with autobiography and it scarred me for life I'm afraid. Memoir is not autobiography, though. I think when a person tries to write objectively about themselves it runs the risk of being intensely boring. (There are exceptions of course)

Memoir on the other hand is filtered through emotion and perspective. It's not supposed to be entirely accurate. Rather, it should be true more than it should be factual. The heart of memoir is expressing how something felt at the time. It's subjective. It's trying to convey experience and so I find it easier to read.

Still, I don't read a lot of it even though I spend a little time each night essentially writing memoir.

It's strange how things work out.

I always get to the point when working on a blog when I feel supremely uninteresting and have a hard time coming up with something to write about. My kids have the same problem frequently. It's easy to feel dismissive of the issue. But isn't that how I'm feeling right now?