Read moreYou want to preserve your life stories for the next generation but don’t know where to start. Here are 3 steps to finding the best personal historian to guide you.
Client exit interview: assembling the elephant
Read moreEvery family member in my generation knew a little about our origins, but not much. It was like the blind men all touching a different part of the elephant. So I tried to assemble the elephant from as many sources as possible. I realized that if I didn’t get it down on paper now, it would never happen.
I thought I’d lost it. Then others found it.
Read moreA friend hands you a picture of your newborn that you thought you would never see again, and you realize that the defining moments in your life never leave you. They lurk, waiting for the right moment to remind you of all you’ve been through, learned, and survived.
What you can learn from my missed opportunities
Read moreWhile I am the writer in the family, that did not mean I was the right person to write my own relative’s stories. In the reporting world we know that the worst person to report a story is one who is connected to it.