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Author: Rhonda Lauritzen

Story structure – Strengthen any story with these tips and examples

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

Rhonda Lauritzen November 16, 2023November 21, 2023 Uncategorized Read more

Visiting an ancestral home at Witch Hollow near Salem

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

Rhonda Lauritzen September 29, 2023November 7, 2023 Uncategorized Read more

No coincidences? Uncanny occurrences in researching people and places

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

Rhonda Lauritzen August 18, 2023August 19, 2023 Blog, Sunday Edition Read more

Alice Ann’s Story Shows Me Riches

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

Rhonda Lauritzen July 27, 2023July 28, 2023 Uncategorized Read more

An Adoption Story Touches My Heart 160 Years Later

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

Rhonda Lauritzen July 26, 2023July 28, 2023 Uncategorized Read more

Grandpa’s Voice Tells their Pioneer Story

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

Rhonda Lauritzen July 23, 2023July 26, 2023 Blog Read more

In writing a life story ask: What are my talents?

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

Rhonda Lauritzen June 14, 2023March 22, 2024 Uncategorized Read more

What this photo says about death of a mother

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

Rhonda Lauritzen May 10, 2023May 11, 2023 Uncategorized Read more

My mom confessed “I dreaded Mother’s Day”

My mom confessed “I dreaded Mother’s Day”

A friend once asked me what it was like having a mother who was so supportive. I have thought about that question a lot since

Rhonda Lauritzen May 10, 2023May 11, 2023 Blog Read more

On gradually losing my mom: She is the sea and she says hush, hush, hush

On gradually losing my mom: She is the sea and she says hush, hush, hush

This week I share an article I wrote a while back about losing my mom while she’s still here. So much has changed in her

Rhonda Lauritzen May 10, 2023May 11, 2023 Uncategorized Read more
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