Memoir writing not just for posterity: Author

BRUCE MINES — While on trial, just before he was put to death, Socrates said, “The unexamined life is not worth living.”
More than 2,000 years later, Paula Dunning answers the question about why she writes memoir with those very same words. Then she laughs.
“Well, at least it’s fair to say that I’ve always believed you should understand yourself,” she says.
The memoir writer has read her essays on CBC’s The Sunday Edition, had a short sto