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Blog articles to Help You Tell the Stories of the Past
How to Preserve Memories Before Things Change
Usually we focus on recalling—and sharing—events from the past. Sometimes, however, we have the opportunity to preserve memories before things change. In fact, that’s why we keep travel journals and scrapbook about our children. Life Transitions Times where we sense...
Throw Back Thursday Everyday
I keep seeing my life—well at least the last eighteen to twenty years of it—flash before my eyes. It’s probably because my nest is emptying next week, as my youngest heads off to college. Everywhere I go, sweet memories creep into my peripheral vision, denying me...
Reminders of Home: 5 Things to Send to College
As kids embark for college, we want to provide them some reminders of home for their dorm rooms. It’s not only for their benefit. As much as we want them to be happy and successful, we also want them to think fondly of the home we’ve provided them for the last 18+...
Where to Start Telling Your Stories
There’s no pat answer on where to start telling your own and family stories. Though "it depends" may feel like a cop out, where to start should be up to you, not me or any other expert. That said, it’s easier to start some places than others. Here’s some places you...
11 Things You Should Know About Writing Your Family History
Keep these points in mind to make writing your family history more fun, rewarding, and doable. Each of these is probably a post of its own, so stay tuned! 1. Writing Your Family History Isn't Just About the Research Don't get me wrong; research matters. A lot. But...
Follow Friday Friends in High Places
Whether you're searching for ancestors, recording your family history, or writing your personal and family stories, friends come in handy. Commrades in arms (or pens or keyboards) will keep you inspired, grand you a fresh perspective and provide an enthusiastic...
Car Memories and How to Write About Them
If there’s something that can come close to cotton candy’s ability to evoke the past, it’s car memories. We love to remember the cars we used to drive. Of course, car memories inevitably include the adventures we had in them. This comes to mind as my sister is getting...
6 Great Ideas for Displaying Sentimental Items in your Home
Wouldn’t you like to honor loved ones by not only holding on to memorabilia, but by displaying sentimental items in your home? It’s hard to know what to do with sentimental items. We usually work our most cherished heirlooms into our home décor, but it’s harder to...
Telling Your Story: How Much Detail is too much?
How much detail is too much is subjective and it depends on your writing style. However, thinking about the following can help you determine if your details are serving your story and your readers well, or if they're, well you know, um, boring folks. How Much Detail...
Learning to Hear: A Story Told Through Journaling
When journaling tells a story that narration wouldn’t. There are times that journaling does a better job of telling a story than narration does. This is especially true for events that take place over time. As you share your journal entries, you take your readers with...
Write about Bullies: 6 Ideas for Telling Your Story
Part 2: Ways to Write about Bullies Tuesday’s post, Writing about Bullies and Boors: Part 1, addressed the different types of bullies looming around in your past. Today’s post will address some strategies to help you write about bullies and other encounters with...
Writing about Bullies and Boors: Part 1
Writing about bullies doesn’t come easily. We want to put that behind us. We wonder, “Who wants to read that?” Probably most people. Whenever we get together and share memories and stories, encounters with belligerence, arrogance, or outright bullying invariably come...
When to Use Fiction to Tell True Stories
How do you communicate your story without having to tell it? One way is to use fiction to tell true stories. Writers often use this tool when they (or their editors) feel that real life fails to produce great literature. (Julie Schumacher’s Turning Real Life into...
Describing a Typical Day Can Deepen Connections
Describing a typical day can deepen connections with readers and loved ones. Your story does not have to be extraordinary to be worthy of the written word. In fact, memorializing a typical day can be the key to connecting with loved ones. I remember my younger son’s...
When Strong Family Roots Don’t Produce a Pretty Tree
A strong family root system doesn’t always lead to a pretty tree. It happens in nature too. Take my backyard willow tree for example. Its root system supposedly can spread over an acre. Despite its ability to efficiently retrieve nutrients and water from the soil, its...
Anti-bucket List: Not Just Dislikes, Dashed Hopes & Forsaken Dreams
Without question, our hopes and dreams tell a lot about us. Shouldn’t an anti-bucket list do the same thing? On the other hand, why write about the negatives when you can focus on the positives? An anti-bucket list isn't just a litany of things you don't like or...
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