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FREE GUIDE: How to Use Photographs as Prompts for Writing Life Stories

FREE GUIDE: How to Use Photographs as Prompts for Writing Life Stories

This free guide includes expert tips for recording the details of important photographs and elucidating the stories associated with them—to leave a visual and narrative history to your children, a gift from the past for the future. Did I mention that this exercise can be rewarding and…fun?!

FREE GUIDE: 56 Essential Questions to Ask Your Parents & Grandparents

FREE GUIDE: 56 Essential Questions to Ask Your Parents & Grandparents

Use these memory-provoking family history questions to conduct a personal history interview with your loved ones, before it’s too late.

FREE GUIDE: After a Death: Going through Your Parents' Photos

FREE GUIDE: After a Death: Going through Your Parents' Photos

Included in this free guide are tips to organize your parents’ photos after they have died, honor their memory, manage disagreements with family members, and preserve their legacy. “Holding onto a photograph and listening to its stories can be healing. Savor the moments when a picture brings your loved one to life for you.”

FREE GUIDE: How to Put the Meaning Back in the Wedding Planning Process

FREE GUIDE: How to Put the Meaning Back in the Wedding Planning Process

Not only can you escape the chaos that is planning a wedding, but you can also put the meaning back in the wedding planning process. Here are eight steps to staying the path towards a heart-centered engagement.

FREE GUIDE: Writing Prompts for Life Story Vignettes

FREE GUIDE: Writing Prompts for Life Story Vignettes

Discover five specific memoir-themed exercises for writing about your memories by engaging all your senses.

FREE Guide: Preserving Your Food Memories

FREE Guide: Preserving Your Food Memories

In addition to tips for how to get started gathering recipes and images for your food heritage project, this guide includes 38 food-themed family history questions to use as conversation starters or writing prompts.

WRITE YOUR LIFE Memory & Writing Prompts Courses

WRITE YOUR LIFE Memory & Writing Prompts Courses

Short courses for anyone who wants to write about their life (even if the longest thing you’ve ever written is your signature!). Click through to explore themes & enroll in courses, which are delivered straight to your phone or tablet via text message or WhatsApp.

FREE GUIDE: 55 Questions to Spark Thanksgiving Story Sharing

FREE GUIDE: 55 Questions to Spark Thanksgiving Story Sharing

We’ve compiled 55 questions to spark story sharing from family elders and any other relatives and loved ones who gather around your holiday table this year—enjoy!!

Suggested family history questions can help guide conversations and trigger memories—all you have to do is start asking!


FREE GUIDE: 75 Questions to Spark Christmas Story Sharing

FREE GUIDE: 75 Questions to Spark Christmas Story Sharing

A list of 75 family history questions to help get the stories flowing from your loved ones at your next Christmas get-together. A helpful tool to trigger memories and get into the holiday spirit the family history way!

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FREE GUIDE: How to Use Photographs as Prompts for Writing Life Stories
FREE GUIDE: 56 Essential Questions to Ask Your Parents & Grandparents
FREE GUIDE: After a Death: Going through Your Parents' Photos
FREE GUIDE: How to Put the Meaning Back in the Wedding Planning Process
FREE GUIDE: Writing Prompts for Life Story Vignettes
FREE Guide: Preserving Your Food Memories
WRITE YOUR LIFE Memory & Writing Prompts Courses
FREE GUIDE: 55 Questions to Spark Thanksgiving Story Sharing
FREE GUIDE: 75 Questions to Spark Christmas Story Sharing
 
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—quote from The Moth's latest book, which I highly recommend, called "How to Tell a Story"
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Personally, I believe in having an open heart, and feel most alive when connecting with other people. I value long pauses and white space, story sharing and marginalia. I’m an ou
An instance when a slightly blurry photo is worth keeping! The littlest one here is me, while my two older cousins and my grandparents' dog, Shep, don dime store birthday hats behind me. This snapshot makes me feel, it makes me remember, it makes me
Every season of our life brings new opportunities to reflect. Remember: You don't have to be "old" to want to create a record of the life you have lived.⁠
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Your mom has stories...do you know them? I'm talking about the stories that make her HER, not just your MOM...⁠
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If you'd like to gift your mom with personal history storytelling sessions with me, a generous and interested listener, I'd be hon
 

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