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Bringing Your Ancestors to Life

Love to WriteFebruary 12, 2013673Views 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,…

Photo memories

SpotlightFebruary 6, 2013185Views 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, 2013312Views 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, 2013243Views 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, 2013349Views 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, 2013392Views 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, 2013218Views 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, 2013279Views 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…

Writing Sprints

SpotlightJanuary 9, 2013252Views 0Likes 0Comments

Every now and then, I like to do something I call writing sprints. I give you a word, and you have just two minutes to write whatever comes to mind. There’s not much time to think, so you just have to jump in and write the first thing you think about. The New Year often…

Make Writing Fun in 2013, day five

Love to WriteJanuary 4, 2013248Views 0Likes 0Comments

Okay, day five, the final P of the pack, and I’ve saved the most important one for last. By now, if you weren’t aware before, you know what type of pen and paper you favor, the pleasure of writing with other people, and how writing in different places can add adventure to your writing time.…

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Bringing Your Ancestors to Life

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

Writing Sprints

Make Writing Fun in 2013, day five

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