History
What are we looking for?
Wednesday, March 31st, 2010What are we looking for when we are researching our ancestors or our DNA? Why do we want to write our life stories or record history of any kind? When I speak to people or watch shows about these topics I am always struck by the deep longing involved in the search. Two shows have [...]
Mother’s Day Proclamation
Saturday, May 9th, 2009From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The “Mother’s Day Proclamation” by Julia Ward Howe was one of the early calls to celebrate Mother’s Day in the United States. Written in 1870, Howe’s Mother’s Day Proclamation was a pacifist reaction to the carnage of the American Civil War and the Franco-Prussian War. The Proclamation was tied to [...]
Today’s Take Action Prompt: Visualize
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008Visualize: Image what your life will look like with dreams fulfilled. How do you look? How do you feel? Visualizing helps draw the desired result closer to you. Write the story of your goal fulfilled. Is it a review of the book/movie/play you finally wrote? Put lots of detail in there. Describe picking up your [...]
Today’s Take Action Prompt: Pretend You’re an Interviewer
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008Look at the things you have learned and seen. A quiet life is not an empty life – it is full of wishes and dreams that deserve expressing. Begin simply. Choose a decade. Any one decade that appeals to you. Write a short paragraph for each year in the decade. A brief outline of some [...]
Family History – Making the Past Present
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008“Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.” ~ Hermann Hesse Swiss (German-born) author (1877 – 1962) What is your history? A narrative of events or a story, your particular history is unique. One perspective does not define a family history. If you can [...]