Category Archives: capturing memories

What are your earliest memories?

Posted on May 12, 2014 by moonbridgebooks

A post in one of the LinkedIn groups I’m in asked what were people’s earliest memories. Surprisingly, quite a few people had toddler (pre-language) memories, and some even baby memories! Some were traumatic, as to be expected, such as discovering … Continue reading →

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The sweet scent of memories

Posted on April 27, 2014 by moonbridgebooks

I think we all know that certain scents trigger memories. Certain foods cooking, cinnamon, grandmother’s perfume, lilacs, even Aquanet hairspray (think 1980s big hair days), but how about dishwashing liquid? I got out a new bottle of Palmolive dishwashing liquid … Continue reading →

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Oral histories and interviews strike gold

Posted on March 3, 2014 by moonbridgebooks

While writing Cherry Blossoms in Twilight, my mother’s stories of everyday life around WWII in Japan, my eyes were opened to the gold of all personal stories, especially of culture and history. Sure, I had heard plenty of Mom’s childhood stories of … Continue reading →

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