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Blog articles to Help You Tell the Stories of the Past
Retouching the Past: Where to Stop
We’re in an age of retouched photos. We remove blemishes and correct lighting and exposure. We can even remove wrinkles, whiten teeth, and eliminate extra chins. We can… But should we? Retouching the Past or Telling Who We Are? When we write our memories and stories,...
How Family Will React to Your Stories: Avoiding Surprises
When you’re writing about your past, how do you predict how family will react to your stories? Anticipating loved ones reactions can help you decide what to share and with whom you want to share it. Sunny Morton recently brought up this point as we were recording a...
Writing about Personal Facades: 5 Effective Strategies
Writing about personal facades is a great way to connect with loved ones. Plus, it can be therapeutic. When I lived in Europe and tromped around medieval cities, I marveled at the intact buildings. Buildings remained as beautiful in the 1980s as they had in the 1510s....
Becoming A Stay At Home Mom: An Unexpected Detour
Recently, I published a post about writing about Things You Didn’t Know, particularly those things that you never dreamed of happening. You know, The Road Less Expected… Following my own advice, here’s my explanation of how I became a stay at home mom instead of a...
Oral Histories: Is Technology Killing or Revitalizing Them?
As much as we (okay, I) love technology, we sometimes wonder if it isn’t stabbing us in the back. Just as we wonder if access to calculators is undermining our math skills, a case can be made that technology is to blame for the decline of the art of oral histories....
The Untold Story of Putting Down Roots
The place we choose to settle and put down roots has far reaching (no pun intended) consequences. It’s the community our children call home. It’s the environment in which they form their worldviews. Frequently, it becomes the place children and grandchildren choose to...
Are you older and wiser? Things you didn’t know …
Telling your stories means sharing your journey. Every time you write about a memory of something you learned you’re sharing your wisdom. Writing about things you didn't know lets you address the whole process of becoming older and hopefully wiser. Whether you write a...
Confessions of a Forgetful Personal Historian
For someone who is all about preserving stories, my memory sucks. Just the other week my mother-in-law told me a story about a family ring. Apparently, my husband found the ring in the summer cottage and, assuming it wasn’t valuable, gave it to me to wear. My...
How Lists Help You Tell Your Stories
My scattered brain loves lists. They calm and organize my distractible why-did-I-come-into-this-room brain. When my brain isn’t preoccupied with finding my glasses or coffee cup, lists feed my creativity. Lists can be the memory-collector’s best friend. To illustrate...
4 Types of Family Mysteries You Should Write About
Why limit yourself to writing about what you know? Everyone loves a good mystery. Things you don’t know make for compelling reading too, especially when it comes to family mysteries. Family Mysteries Passed Down In my grandmother’s “Treasure Chest of Memories,” she...
Two Perspectives on Writing Down Memories and Stories
When it comes to writing down memories and stories, bloggers have some great advice about preserving and sharing memories and telling family stories and why it matters. Here are two that give a poignant personal perspective: Writing Down Memories and Stories: a...
Seeing Over the Counter and Other Childhood Rites of Passage
We think of childhood rites of passage as the big things, the things that are widely celebrated and photographed. Such rites include the first day of school, riding a bike without training wheels, and confirmation or bar or bat mitzvahs. These biggies help the child...
How to Connect Using Social Media
There’s a lot of debate on whether social media does more to isolate us than it does to connect us with others as well as a few disturbing studies. Of course, it depends on how you use it. Here are seven ways to connect using social media. Using Social Media to Reach...
Grave Markers Are Storytellers Too!
There’s no question that grave markers are an invaluable resource for birth and death dates, full names, and family connections. However, when we try to tell a person’s story, we often over look them or give them only passing attention. We look for something more...
6 Reasons to Write About No Good Terrible Horrible Very Bad Days
With my compliments to Judith Viost and her Alexander... Sometimes when a day is over, you want to forget it. Put it behind you. It’s the last thing you want to memorialize in any way whatsoever. That might be what’s best for you—and the rest of us. However, there are...
How to Remember September so Others Can Follow
Ah, September. It’s the month that marks the end of summer. It’s when school goes back into full swing. Kids go to college. Here in the northern hemisphere, the days become noticeably shorter. It's a great time to remember Septembers past. As a child, September was a...
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