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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…