Patricia

Bringing Your Ancestors to Life

Love to WriteFebruary 12, 20131KViews 0Likes 0Comments

In the last month, I’ve had the great pleasure of spending time with genealogists in Flagler County, The Villages, and Sarasota. Many of them have been researching family history for thirty years or more; one woman dedicated much of the last sixty years to discovering branches of her family tree. That’s a lot of names,…

Norma Beasley is cruisin’ with us

Cruise, CruisersFebruary 12, 2013795Views 0Likes 0Comments

I am a West Virginia native, the great granddaughter of a slave and a Cherokee Indian. Having lost both parents by the age of three, my grandparents raised me. There are no siblings. After earning an M.F.A. in art from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York, my career transitioned into textbook publishing, then continued into the digital publishing environment. I’m an avid…

Photo memories

SpotlightFebruary 6, 2013843Views 0Likes 0Comments

Call to mind a photograph of you as a child that is familiar to you. It may be one that hung on the wall of your home throughout your growing up years or possibly, an image of your young self you’ve recently seen for the first time. How old are you in the photograph? What…

Editing: Make Your Stories Shine Workshop

SpotlightFebruary 6, 2013977Views 0Likes 0Comments

Good writing requires good editing, and putting pen to paper is just the beginning. It's time to take your writing from promising to polished! Editing: Make Your Stories Shine Workshop March 16, 2013 9:00 am - 4:00 pm Lake Fairview, Orlando, FL You have a heap of stories in front of you. You've worked long and hard to get…

Lesson in love

SpotlightJanuary 30, 2013882Views 0Likes 0Comments

Today, let’s write about love. Who is it or was it in your life who taught you the most about love? What did they teach you? How did they teach you about love? Pay attention to the first name or image that pops into your mind. It might not be who you expect, but don’t…

The Villages Genealogical Society

SpotlightJanuary 27, 20131KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Thank you so much for the warm welcome to The Villages Genealogical Society. I was quite impressed with your group and the quality of writing in the few exercises we read. I'm sure yours was wonderful, too. Here's a link to a copy of the poem I read, "Where I'm From" by George Ella Lyon and…

Raising the Dead – Writing about Your Ancestors!

SpotlightJanuary 25, 20131KViews 0Likes 0Comments

You've been looking at those boxes of information, the binders of data you've so painstakingly assembled over the years of researching your family history. You wonder if your children or grandchildren will treasure all the copies and photographs and documents as much as you do. Unfortunately, they probably won't. That's why it's so important to…

Stuffed…lions, and tigers, and bears. Oh my!

SpotlightJanuary 23, 2013829Views 0Likes 0Comments

Yesterday, I decided I needed a little visual help in promoting my book, Eating an Elephant: Write Your Life One Bite at a Time, so I ventured into a Toys R Us store for the first time in my life and searched until I found just what I was looking for—Alphie the Elephant. Alphie is so…

Sense Memory

SpotlightJanuary 16, 2013918Views 0Likes 0Comments

We rely on our senses—sound, sight, touch, smell and taste—every minute of every day to navigate our lives, but those senses can also be a vehicle that takes us back to long ago times and places. Think about the “taste” of your childhood. What were the foods that defined your early years? What were the…

Orange TV Interview

SpotlightJanuary 15, 2013733Views 0Likes 0Comments

We live in a temporal world and we're losing the memories, hopes and dreams, which were often left behind in letters and writings. Patricia Charpentier shares why it's important to write your legacy with Serena Fisher of Active Lifestyles Magazine. Active Lifestyles - Learn How to Write Your Life’s Story

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Bringing Your Ancestors to Life

Norma Beasley is cruisin’ with us

Photo memories

Editing: Make Your Stories Shine Workshop

Lesson in love

The Villages Genealogical Society

Raising the Dead – Writing about Your Ancestors!

Stuffed…lions, and tigers, and bears. Oh my!

Sense Memory

Orange TV Interview

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