I've told you my story. If you like, tell me yours.

The first day of the rest of my life

My father loved his car, Even more than the thieves did

When Empathy Undermines Love

Finally, warily, happily It was time to leave

My friends boarded the train. I did not. I lived.

A mother's death, her children's limbo.

Post-mortem of a Counterculture

Finding happiness, finally, and surprisingly, far from home

I have a blog, with over 8,000 followers, which almost ruined my life.

A Mother's Memory of the Clues to her Child's Diagnosis

A Love Junkie's Tale.

What was growing on my most private place?

The death my family still mourns

Should I stay? Or should I go?

My grandfather had been arrested by the British colonial government. Why had he been there that day?

What my grandmother didn’t tell me

A Korean Army conscript weighs whether to tell the truth

Living, surviving, dying and ready for suicide.

An around-the-world story of a terminated pregnancy, a friendship, and shame

In a desolate Chinese city, Beluga whales, and tears

In rural China, I began to learn about my great-grandfather, and why people might hate me because of him.

Project Wordsworth (Volume 2) is a storytelling laboratory at the Columbia Journalism School. In this latest version, we introduce The Memory Project, which takes as its inspiration this maxim from William Faulkner: Memory believes before knowing remembers...

Each of these stories begins with a memory. That memory is then examined, questioned, probed and dissected. Is what I recall what really happened? Where does this memory take me? Who was there? Who were they?

If you find a memory that evokes a memory of your own, we invite you to share it with the author...

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