Writing Life Stories

I have fallen behind with posting on my blogs. Teaching two classes each week on Zoom is keeping me very busy. I work at making the...

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

Going through some boxes and folders today, I opened a manila envelope and found faded clippings from my hometown newspaper, the Alba...

On my recent trip down to south Georgia where I was born and lived half my life, my brother Max and I, along with two second cousins, Latre...

A blog post I read today reminds me of some of the jobs I’ve held in my life.   A job, to me, is anything I have been paid to do. Therefore...

While reading  The Gift of Years by Joan Chittister , I found a section I want to share with you. “Old age is a   treasure-house of histo...

January 10 already. Christmas came and went, and suddenly we are in 2015. My calendar's white space is filling too fast. I have enjoyed ...

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

I had the pleasure to speak to some interesting and nice folks who will be starting a writing group soon. We discussed how we all have stori...

A student in one of my classes said he knew it was time to write down the truth about his life when one of the young ones said, "I kno...

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....

Many of us are involved in researching our genealogy, finding our ancestors and learning about their lives. At Writers Circle next Wednesday...

What is the difference between autobiography, memoir, family stories, family history, or stories about your life? In my classes, we write fa...

Pat Daharsh sends me wonderful online sites. Today she sent this one. Forty years ago in 1969, I was practically a newly wed. On July 20th,...

Stories add leaves and flowers to the branches of your family tree.— Gloria Nussbaum, Real to Reel,Beaverton, Oregon A life story is a gift ...