Writing Life Stories

My students know that I am a follower of Bobbie Christmas, editor, and writer. She is one of the most astute people on the subject of writin...

Family History In 1998, I published a compilation of stories about my grandparents, and ten aunts and uncles on my father's si...

Today is Sunday already. I slept most of Saturday. I needed the rest from the chronic pain I seem to live with daily now. But I am...

You know it is Florida when begonias are blooming in February Monteen, 99 years old, in a lobster bib, and Beverly, her lovely d...

A couple of years ago I wrote an article - How Do You Want to be Remembered? - which is one of the most often read page on this blog....

Do you know your ancestors or relatives who are veterans of some of America's wars? I did not know until I began researching family for ...

It was good to hear from Sarah of Jacksonville who ordered a copy of Profiles and Pedigrees, Charles Thomas Council and his descendants . S...

John Cecil Council , born in Barbour County, Alabama in 1833, was my great grandfather. He was the son of Temperance Weaver Council . John,...