First and foremost, 'Life is one Big Story" is a written record of my beginnings, to know me as I was before they met me. Secondly, I want to dig through my memory files while my mind is still working well. Thirdly, writing this affords me the opportunity to revisit and re-examine my life's highs and lows, not idealized but with its warts and all. Finally, after becoming retired, new friends and acquaintances ask, "Who are you] and "What have you...