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Eleven of my favorite things – Christmas ideas
Each year, I share a few of my favorite things as gift ideas. I hope you enjoy this quick round-up. (Note: please excuse typos –
Story structure – Strengthen any story with these tips and examples
This article explains the basics of story structure using The Sound of Music as the main example, followed by a short personal example, and ending
Visiting an ancestral home at Witch Hollow near Salem
The Tyler family from which I descend had more involvement in the Salem witch trials than any other in New England in the number of
No coincidences? Uncanny occurrences in researching people and places
Uncanny, I think, when the archivist hands me the old photographs. But then again, in my line of work doing family history, I have come
Alice Ann’s Story Shows Me Riches
This is an embarrassment of riches. That’s what I thought when I looked around my leaking and smallish camp trailer while reading the pioneer story
An Adoption Story Touches My Heart 160 Years Later
Preface: This is an adoption story of enduring love, and pure hope. Also, it intertwines with my own family story (and I didn’t see that coming.) The
Grandpa’s Voice Tells their Pioneer Story
Because of a weirdly wide age spread in the generations in my family, the Mormon pioneer experience is only three generations back, even though I’m
In writing a life story ask: What are my talents?
If you are writing your autobiography, life story, or memoir, it’s an insightful exercise to ask introspective questions: What are my talents? What are my
What this photo says about death of a mother
You wouldn’t know by this photo that “the most important person in the world isn’t here any more.” My friend, René Thornton Jr., was the