Title: Between Then and Now --- A Meandering Memoir Abstract: I was asked to talk about something interesting --- perhaps how I came to develop the memoir class. Following this suggestion the first part is about how I became involved with LaTeX and friends and why the memoir class. To me this is not particularly interesting as it falls into the personal `been there, done that' category. The second part is concerned with how the written word has been presented, starting four millenia ago with Cuneiform and, with a few stops along the way, ending at recent times.