For You: My Life Memoir

Share yourself, your stories, your heritage, your beliefs, your dreams and more through more than 700 prompts organized just for you, to capture every part of you and preserve your memories for others to discover.

FOR YOU is your guidebook and canvas for passing along your moments, your memories, your thoughts, your wisdom and the special life journey that is, and will forever be, you. For you are unique, for you are loved, for you will always be remembered.

Giving a journal to a parent or grandparent? The Tell It All series by the same author offers guided journals written specifically for Mom, Dad, Grandma and Grandpa.

FOR YOU is dedicated to Erik Smith and his incredible daughters. Proceeds from sales of FOR YOU are donated to the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Erik Michael Smith Gift Fund.

Rip Gerber writes books and makes records.

His thrillers Pharma and Killervirus were published in Germany by Heyne, part of Penguin Random House in Munich. Pharma was a bestseller there. His short fiction has appeared in First Thrills, the International Thriller Writers anthology edited by Lee Child. He is also the author of Learning To Fly, the journals For You and Holiday Memories, and Tell It All, a series of guided life-story journals for Mom, Dad, Grandma and Grandpa.

He is a singer-songwriter and recording artist and the founder of Secret Equations Records, an independent label he runs himself. He released his debut album, Old Piano, in 2026.

Before the music, he trained as a biochemical engineer and spent time at the Central Intelligence Agency. After Harvard Business School, he spent twenty years as a product and marketing executive in polymers, software, and artificial intelligence, starting and selling several private and public companies.

He lives in Tennessee and fishes in Montana when he can.