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...
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...
Christmas Traditions: 12 Writing Prompts
If you celebrate it, Christmas traditions are probably at the top of your list of family practices. As the holiday approaches, reminisce and write about your Christmas traditions growing up. How do they compare to the ones you now have? Food traditions: What are your...
Remember When – Exactly, Precisely When
When an event of great historical or emotion consequence occurs, we don’t just remember when —we remember the precise moment, what we were doing, whom we were with, and even what the weather was like. Scientists call these memories “flashbulb” memories.[1] The name is...
How to Write about Hopes and Dreams
Why should memoirists, memory collectors, and family historians write about hopes and dreams? I get it. We’ve long let go of the hopes and dreams we had as youngsters. Sometimes the idea of revisiting them seems like a frolic with immaturity. So why should we include...
Don't Wait.
Put the episodes of the past to paper.
We all have stories to share with our children and grandchildren. Whether it’s a proud moment, memories of grandparents, or a lesson you’ve learned, Memories of Me: A Complete Guide to Telling and Sharing the Stories of Your Life helps you put the episodes of your past onto paper and share them with loved ones.
