One Sunday in 2007, as I struggled with my first-born toddler in church, I watched another young mother encourage one child who had just spoken to the congregation, and simultaneously seek to quiet another she held on her lap. I looked around at other beautiful, young women that all seemed to radiate light as they did …
How to interview is part 1 in a series of posts to help you capture a loved one’s personal history. Decide Together First, do you know where to start? Begin with a great set of questions! If you don’t already have them, download the FREE Legacy Tale e-book of writing prompts here. Whatever resource you use, make sure …
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“I think I’ll keep Dad’s scriptures myself. Priceless!” This was a text message from my Mom the morning after I sent her home with Grandpa’s scriptures, old and covered with worn, black leather zip-cases. She had been thinking of giving them to one of my brothers, but decided against it after looking through them and …
Part 3 in a series of posts to help you finalize your personal history for printing You have accomplished an amazing work—a legacy—in writing your personal history. Your children and grandchildren will be forever grateful for this priceless gift! So don’t leave it locked on your computer… Let’s prepare your legacy tale to be shared …
Part 2 in a series of posts to help you finalize your personal history for printing You have accomplished an amazing work—a legacy—in writing your personal history. Your children and grandchildren will be forever grateful for this priceless gift! So don’t leave it locked on your computer… Let’s prepare your legacy tale to be shared …
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Part 1 in a series of posts to help you finalize your personal history for printing You have accomplished an amazing work—a legacy—in writing your personal history. Your children and grandchildren will be forever grateful for this priceless gift! So don’t leave it locked on your computer… Let’s prepare your legacy tale to be shared …
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One of the great joys of our Legacy Tale work is the opportunity to interview individuals and families about their lives and benefit from their wisdom. Using our proven interview questions and experienced strategy that is equal parts science and art, we help good people recall the past and reflect on the present. We help them …
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Are you ever surprised when you look back and realize how you’ve completely shifted your mindset on something? Did you used to have a stronghold on one position and somehow, remarkably, over time did an “about-face?” That has happened with me, and, interestingly, it’s because of my work with Legacy Tale. Now I spend money. …
I took my own advice. When I teach classes and meet with clients to write their personal history, I encourage them to use times of change in their lives as a catalyst to reflect and write. I did that, and it truly was a game-changer! For members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day …
All my life I’ve been a writer. Not the exciting, become-famous, write-great-works-of-fiction kind of writer. Nope. I admire them tremendously, but that will never be me. The words that live inside me are the kind that tell true tales, works of inspiration and information and contemplation. Words that analyze and make compelling arguments for action. …
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