Category Archives: capturing memories

November Remembering

Today in church we honored Remembrance of Saints Day by remembered those members who passed away in the last year’s timeframe. Pastor Katie encouraged us to remember all our loved ones no longer with us—remember their love, their stories, their … Continue reading

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Writing memoir and life stories: Not just what happened

When writing your stories, don’t make them a laundry list of what happened and when. That’s important, but there’s more to the stories than that, especially if you want to make them more interesting. You are the main character of … Continue reading

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National Poetry Month: Reminder, poetry can be memoir

For anyone who likes to write poems, know that you can create a memoir using poems. You can write about your life using poems. Or, you can simply include poems in your memoir or lifewriting, mixing them in with prose. … Continue reading

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