Category Archives: capturing memories

National Poetry Month: Reminder, poetry can be memoir

Posted on April 6, 2025 by moonbridgebooks

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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What to do with old family movies, slides, and all those print photos

Posted on November 10, 2024 by moonbridgebooks

I spent some time at our county library the other day getting a VHS cassette of clips of my kids’ childhood digitized to an .mp4 file stored on a flash drive I brought along. Two libraries near me have equipment … Continue reading →

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Writing a Children’s Book For Your Kids (or Grandkids) to Capture Their Childhood

Posted on September 8, 2024 by moonbridgebooks

Yesterday I attended our local writer’s guild meeting to hear about writing for kids. Ryan Nusbickel had the most delightful young children’s books – fun and funny in text and his own illustrations – and the stories were set in … Continue reading →

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