Category Archives: history

Writing Your Personal History with COVID-19

Posted on April 5, 2020 by

These are strange and scary times – history-making times. This novel coronavirus may likely spawn novels as well as science papers, but most interesting will be the true stories of survival. That’s where you can help, besides by sequestering yourself … Continue reading →

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New Year resolutions to ask for stories, write the stories

Posted on January 19, 2020 by

It’s a new year and in the next several weeks I will be speaking to a couple seniors groups to persuade them to adopt new year resolutions to begin writing the stories of their lives – mostly because it’s fun … Continue reading →

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The Last Cherry Blossom – WWII Japan for kids

Posted on October 27, 2019 by

I’m an adult, but recently I enjoyed reading a middle-grade historical fiction book by Twitter friend Kathleen Burkinshaw. The Last Cherry Blossom is based closely on her mother’s stories of WWII and surviving the atomic bomb in Hiroshima. These days, … Continue reading →

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