The other day in workshop, one of the members who is writing a memoir, said "I just don't know where to begin.  Nothing very interesting happened until I got to school.""  Well, in the first place, I would dispute that, and told her so.  Every one of our experiences from birth to death is uniquely our own–that is if we train ourselves to see the uniqueness.  Okay, you were reared in the boonies and attending school was the first time you realized there was a wider world out there.  That is a unique situation in itself.  You can write about boredom, about why you were bored, why life was so boring.  BUT, and this is the important part. of "picking up that puppy,."  you do not have to begin your life story at the beginning.  As we are advised in how-to articles about writing fiction, open with a dramatic or dynamic scene that occured any time in your life–a turning point , an epiphany.  This, contrasted later in your memoir with that early boredom proves to your readers that you are a writer who knows that change is the only constant in  life.  Until  tomorrow–Willma, (trying to pick up my manuscript puppies at the "right end."  )