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Blog articles to Help You Tell the Stories of the Past
How to Write About a Childhood Home
Last month, we looked at Writing about your Childhood Home. "Come with me back to my Childhood Home" was the title that my grandmother used when she left us a piece about one of the homes of her childhood in her "Treasure Chest of Memories." (See My Story: The...
My Song
“Five Minute Friday” is a great writing exercise even if you’re not blogging your treasures (memories). Your spontaneous thoughts on a given subject can reveal your personality, daily life, beliefs, etc. If you are blogging, I encourage you to join in! If you want to...
Write About Grandparents: How to and Why
Memories of grandparents are a treasure. That's why it's so important to write about grandparents when we preserve our stories. Not everyone has had the privilege of knowing any, much less all, of their grandparents. The luckier among us grew up in the same town as...
May Flowers – How to Honor the Family Gardener
Today's post is part of the “May Flowers” Blog Hop. I hope you've enjoyed your hop so far and I'm glad you're here. If you’re coming from Krysthle Poitras’ blog Krysthle’s Designs you are in the right place! (If you landed here first and want to do the full hop,...
How to Create a Written Time Capsule
When we’re anticipating a milestone event, we focus on the event itself, not what is going on in the world around us. Later on, however, it’s fun to look back in context of what was happening in the world around us. For those that read about our memories decades...
How to Find a Creative Space for Writing about your Memories
A good creative space for writing can facilitate your memory journal writing or blogging, not to mention your recall. But, let’s face it. Very few of us can write anywhere. Finding your groove may involve finding a physical space—your actual groove. Distractions “Turn...
Wild Weather–12 Ways to Preserve Meteorological Memories
In her post today, Staci Troilio points out that unseasonal weather makes an intriguing backdrop for fiction stories. Since life is so frequently stranger than fiction, that goes double to those of us writing about and collecting family memories. Though not...
Video Clips – 6 Ways to Preserve Memories
Video cameras are getting smaller and less expensive. Here are some great ways to use video clips to preserve and share your memories. If you’re blogging, it’s easy to embed a clip into your blog. If you’re using paper and pin, simply transfer the recording to a disc...
Scanning Old Photos: 3 Ways to Get it Done
Digitizing Your Photo Archives and Scanning Old Photos How do you get your photo archives into digital (CD or hard drive) format? If you’re like me, you have boxes, organizers, and albums of photos, not to mention slides and negatives. How to you get the best of the...
Who Are My Friends?
"Five Minute Friday" is a great writing exercise even if you're not blogging your treasures (memories). Your spontaneous thoughts on a given subject can reveal your personality, daily life, beliefs, etc. If you are blogging, I encourage you to join in! If you want to...
An Actual Chest of Memories: Is there one at your house?
If you want to get technical, my brain is a treasure chest of memories. Since I’ve had a MRI, I guess theoretically, I could scan and embed a picture of it. However, as the radiologist’s report spelled out that my brain was “unremarkable,” I’ll spare us all the...
Write About Memories: It’s Therapeutic!
There are plenty of unselfish reasons to write about memories, but there’s nothing wrong with doing it simply for yourself. You can write about memories to preserve your stories while memory serves, for the joy of writing, or to work-through your past. You can also...
Leap of Faith: How to Practice
"Five Minute Friday" is a great writing exercise even if you're not blogging your treasures (memories). Your spontaneous thoughts on a given subject can reveal your personality, daily life, beliefs, etc. If you are blogging, I encourage you to join in! If you want to...
How to Use Pinterest to Share Memories
Already using Pinterest? Skip down to "How to Use Pinterest to Share Memories" New to Pinterest? Keep reading. What is Pinterest? It's hard to know how to use Pinterest if you don't know what it is. According to about.pinterest.com, Pinterest is a “tool for collecting...
April Showers Scrapbook Layout
Scrapbook pages are a great way to memorialize special moments and events. Today's post describes preserving the love and excitement involved in welcoming a new family member, as well as for conveying the excitement and anticipation leading up to a family wedding....
Here – Five Minute Friday
#FiveMinuteFriday Every Friday, Lisa-Jo Baker, founder of "Five Minute Friday," broadcasts a writing prompt, challenging writers to writer for five minutes only. In her words, "It's not a perfect post, not a profound post, just five minutes of focused writing. " This...
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