I read the “5 Takeaways from Kamala Harris’ new book,” meaning her 107 Days memoir, and have some comments about life writing. When you write your stories, they are YOUR stories of what you know happened, or your understanding of what happened, and they are what YOU thought and how YOU felt.

Point 1) That’s what SHE thought, how SHE felt.

Point 2) Tell your truth, what you thought, but maybe don’t feed the wolves yummy dog treats. Be careful with your wording around anything volatile.

Point 3) Yes, you might hurt people no matter what. Be respectful and considerate in your writing. Others may think your thoughts and feelings are wrong, but that’s THEIR thoughts and feelings. Might have been a good idea to discuss things with them at the time, but you may not have thought about it or been hesitant to, or maybe that wasn’t possible.

Point 4) This doesn’t have much to do with most of us as we’re not running for political office, but the stories of who we are (our backstory) will be in our memoirs.

Point 5) Maybe we don’t know yet what’s next. For most of us, we don’t have to say; we told our story and that’s that. We can always write a follow-up.

I prefer memoirs about “ordinary” people so I’m not going to read 107 Days but I’m sure it’s interesting.