These are our stories

A woman who enrolled in a Life Stories class in January 2016 enrolled for a second time last fall. She is serious about her writing and...

Joan, my mom’s cousin and a close family friend, was a great cook, and the sweet treats she made were ahhh-mazing. I remember from my...

My Friday morning Life Stories classes meet in the library of the local senior center. During a class last week, a gentleman came in to...

Writing your life story is an opportunity like no other to look back on and share funny moments. A 90-year-old client and I shared many...

I’ve helped seniors write their life stories through which the writers’ grandchildren have learned that depression, heart disease and...

These dreary winter days provide the perfect time to start writing your life stories. That is how I think of them, a succession of short...

Life stories bring history home. They make history REAL. A couple of guys who were in one of my classes last year served our country in...

At one level, your life story is not about you at all – but about how your experiences can help others. When I was diagnosed with cancer...

Writing your life story isn’t about vanity or being egotistical. Rather, it is a way of connecting to future generations and connecting...

Writing your life story allows you to share it in your own words, from your own perspective. Are you familiar with the telephone game?...

It’s officially fall, and school is back in session. My Life Stories classes are back in session also. Hard to believe we’re already...

Ernest Rasche and Mary Ann Beckman started dating in 1944, the year before Ernest went into the Army. They never dated anyone but each...

Today, the 20-year anniversary of my father's death, finds me contemplating that my niece and nephew who will graduate from high school...

On the last day of my nine-week Life Stories classes, I generally ask the participants to share with the group something of what they...

We're halfway through this round of Life Stories classes. On Day 1, a 72-year-old father of two said his children didn't know much about...

This story also was written by a Life Stories participant, Laverne Schuck, and shared by her at the county museum's Festival of Trees...

I love an old-fashioned Christmas story. This is part of one written in one of my classes by Anna Kern and shared by her at the opening...

About four years ago, I started taking harmonica lessons from a local woman who is now 91 years old. She enjoys playing the nursing home...

I've been helping Mary write her life story since last fall. She has done the writing; I have done the typing along with some rearranging...

Sometimes I forget how much I love the writing part of telling people's life stories. After the interviews are substantially complete and...