In turn place names become effective bonds between people and places evoking nostalgic reflections and memoirs of personal experiences.
He published a paper in 1809 on his discovery of the polarization of light by reflection and a memoir in 1810 on the theory of double refraction (bending) of light in crystals.
"My childhood, my adolescence in Romania were a little like being a black in the state of Mississippi," Steinberg says in "Reflections and Shadows," a memoir written with Aldo Buzzi, a friend from Milan.
She graduated last spring, after writing a thesis that was part personal memoir, part reflection on memoir as a literary genre.
"It will be a personal reflection, a memoir of growing up in New York.
Fiction isn't memoir and memoir isn't fiction.
"Of melodrama and memoir.
It encourages reflection and reprieve.
"It is for reflection and quietude".
Harilyn says she tried in writing her memoir to figure out why, even as a long-time, deeply committed disability rights activist, she can still at times walk past a mirror, see her reflection and "freak out".
