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Blog articles to Help You Tell the Stories of the Past
Innocence Lost: Why Such Stories Matter
Innocence lost is supposed to be a traditional coming of age story. An assuming the mantle of adulthood story. A stripping of the naïveté of childhood. For most, that maturity takes place over time. Too often, though, it turns on a dime. Everything changes as the...
Telling Someone Else’s Story: Point of View
It seems counter-intuitive, especially for a collection of memories, but telling someone else’s story is something we do all the time. Think about Christmas. Family stories. We tell stories that have been passed down over generations, even centuries. We tell other...
How Family Stories are Worthy of the Nativity
We Christians often struggle to counter commercialism’s sirenic come-hither calls as we begin our gift shopping. We’ve learned, over the years, at least in theory, how keep the hectic and to do lists from robbing us of the spirit of Christmas. We focus on the gift of...
National Day of Listening & Thanksgiving
The day after Thanksgiving has its own traditions. Leftover day. Get out the Christmas Decorations Day (my house). The ironic Black Friday. It’s also StoryCorps’ National Day of Listening. Unlike Black Friday, when we’re encouraged to eschew all our thankfulness and...
Aftermath: Writing in the Face of Tragedy
Friday the thirteenth, November 2015 is another date etched into humanity’s collective consciousness. I find myself loath to knit the yarns of horror and heartbreak from Paris and Beirut into just another how-to, just another Monday morning post. But I also know part...
Use NaNoWriMo to write your stories!
NaWritMo (National Writing Month) without No (Novel) ? You betcha! You can use NaNoWriMo to write your stories! If you don’t know what I’m talking about, then you haven’t heard of, much less embraced, National Novel Writing Month, otherwise known as...
In Search of a Bond with My 20th Great Grandmother
Visiting Lincoln (UK), I wanted an emotional bond with my 20th great grandmother. Foolish as it sounds, I wanted to get a feel for her life. I wanted to know her a little. Unlike London, which has changed so much over the centuries, Lincoln felt like a place...
RootsTech Keynote Speakers for 2016 Announced
If you weren’t already planning to attend Rootstech 2016, today’s announcement of its keynote speakers might have you searching for flights to Salt Lake City. The world’s largest family history conference's opening session on February 4, 2016 will start with New York...
How I Learned to Adventure From Daddy
I learned to adventure from my dad. He taught me to keep a life-long sense of adventure, but he never said a word to me about it. He lived it. Daddy was no Sir Richard Shackleton or Indiana Jones. He wasn’t into any type of bodily discomfort—or risking his life. His...
Should you Use Social Media to Share your Stories?
Should you use social media to share your stories? Will it help you find the audience the episodes of your past warrant? I originally published this post in 2015. However, as 2020 draws to a close, I have a slightly different take. 2015 There are apps that...
How to Form Emotional Connections to Family Members You Don’t Remember
Are you able to form emotional connections with family members you don’t remember? With ancestors? Or are they stubbornly one-dimensional, lying flat on the page? Even when you have the basic facts of your relatives’ or ancestors’ lives, emotional connections to them...
How to Bond with Readers
Dear Reader, I want you to like me. I want to connect with you. I hope to move you with my words, and with the heart and soul I put behind them. I’m going to tell you secrets. I’m going to show you the side of me that I’d prefer to keep in the shadows, or better yet,...
The Incredible Vagaries of Memories
The vagaries of memories are well-documented, and sometimes disconcerting. When we remember an odd fact or experience, sometimes researching memory recall can help you understand the situation. Yesterday, riding in the car with my husband, I observed a young man...
Cemeteries: A fata morgana of stories?
Cemeteries don’t deserve their spooky reputation. Sure, they’re full of dead people (cue my father-in-law’s obligatory joke about “people just dying to get in there”), but they’re more than that. They are the final resting place of our grief, a place where we can go...
Is Technology your Friend or your Despot?
Is technology your friend or your despot, the device that’s trying to rule the household, if not your entire life? Well, it probably depends on what you mean by friend. If you like bossy friends, you're in luck. My missing iPhone, or better stated, the fact that it is...
Telling your Own Story versus your Family Story
Telling your own story versus telling your family's story, isn't a either-or decision. You don’t have to decide between telling your own story versus telling family—or even ancestor—stories. Neither is it a case of choosing “All of the above” because you’re not sure...
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