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Blog articles to Help You Tell the Stories of the Past
How to Preserve Stories of Pregnancy and Childbirth
Often, when we look at our parents’, grandparents’, and ancestors’ history, the stories of pregnancy and childbirth are sparse. Without an eye-witness account, these chapters of your family history often remain unwritten. Ask your Relatives for Stories of Pregnancy...
Is my writing good enough?
Whether or not we voice it, it’s something we all wonder. We ask ourselves “Is my writing good enough?” before we pick up a pen (or digital age equivalent), as we write, and before we hit the save button. The question—the self-doubt—taunts us. For who? Here’s where I...
Difficult Decisions Make Great Stories: Tell How You Made Tough Choices
In Important Life Decisions: Writing your Stories, we looked at how to identify important life decisions to write about. In this post, we’ll look at the stories behind the choices we made. The story behind a difficult decision can be as important (and interesting) as...
Wintergreen: Use Green to Highlight Winter Beauty
This month's blog hop theme is "Brought to You by the Color Green." Winter doesn't have to be blue. I decided to use green to highlight winter beauty. To start at the beginning of the hop, please visit Stamp Patty's...
What She Said: Memories of Voices
There’s probably a good reason that we wish for a phone call from Heaven. We crave to hear the voices of the people we love. We want to remember the things they said—and how they said it. You don’t have to be mourning a loss to want to preserve memories of what he or...
Important Life Decisions: Writing your Stories
Think about the important life decisions you've made over the decades. Which ones do you hope that your descendants and loved ones will respect? Learn from? Understand? Without a record of the choices we made, that understanding fades. Descendants may know that an...
Writing about Your Earliest Memory: 3 Reasons You Should
Writing about your earliest memory can present a challenge. Often, they’re not coherent. You might only remember a room, a noise, or impressions. However, writing about your earliest memory or memories and explaining why they matter can provide a meaningful glimpse...
Part 2: How to Recover Repressed Memories
Part two of a series by Bobbi Parish-Logie addressing recovering repressed memories Memories: Why We Repress Them & How to Recover Them Welcome back everyone to part two of my short series about memories from the perspective of neuroscience and mental...
Agony of Defeat: 5 Ways to Write about It
Life isn’t always about winning, so it makes sense that we’d want to write about the agony of defeat as well as about our accomplishments. In fact, these stories of missing the mark are often the ones that connect us to family members, resonating because we all know...
Memories: Why We Repress Them & How to Recover Them (Part 1)
Guest Poster Bobbi Parish-Logie helps us understand repressed memories and how they are recovered. I'm excited to introduce Bobbi Parish-Logie and the first of two guest posts on repressed and recovered memories. It's a topic that can help all of us connect to our...
12+ Ideas for Writing about Romance
Romantic stories belong in any personal legacy. However, there are many ways you can go about writing about romance. With Cupid standing in the wings, waiting for his and Hallmark’s big day, I thought I’d cover some basic approaches to writing about romance. Each...
How Your Writing is Therapeutic for Others
We know writing is therapeutic for the writer. (If you don’t, refer back to Write about Memories: It's Therapeutic! and Ovarian Cancer: Journaling and Healing). But that’s not the full extent of it. Here are a few of the ways that your writing is therapeutic...
Remember the Romance – Scrapbook Tutorial
When we think about romance, we think about young love—star-crossed lovers and all that. We often forget to honor the enduring relationships. When you remember the romance, don’t forget to remember the long-term love affairs of older family members. Today’s post is...
The Rest of the Story: How Family Stories Fill Gaps in Research.
Stories matter. Not just the bare bones stories based on facts, but the rest of the story. Personalities, proclivities, relationships, and experiences are an important part of preserving your family history. Flynn Coleman makes a good case for this in his article Only...
Busted! How to Write about Getting Caught
Getting caught and getting in trouble are childhood memories we all share. Whether our crimes were big or small, numerous or far and few between, we’ve been busted. Don't just share the times you come off smelling like a rose. Write about those times you got in...
Tell the Story Behind the Smiles
Photos of people laughing—especially group shots of people laughing—are jewels for memory keepers. A picture tells a thousand words; we love seeing the happiness and camaraderie. However, many times there's a story behind the smiles and we still need words to tell the...
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