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Just read your bookComments (32)
AbigailThomas says:
that could be a perfect little essay, but end it with "I left it flapping on the bougainvillea." (or however you spell it!)
Posted: May 22, 2009 5:57PM EDT
grandma01 says:
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lets praise god
This group consist of Both Catholic and non Catholic members coming together to praise God. We are more like a big happy family.
Thank you, and God Bless,
Carol
Posted: May 21, 2009 4:07PM EDT
Champamarie says:
I've been collecting ( My cat just started making a lot of noise and I saw she was after a monarch butterfly and I started yelling "No!" at her. My dog came slinking into the room with her tail between her legs, thinking I was yelling at her.) The cat ran out. Now the butterfly's trapped between panes of the window I opened for (I was going to say "her". I just assumed it was a "she".) That's ore interesting, I suppose, than what I was going to write
Posted: March 16, 2009 6:56PM EDT
AbigailThomas says:
but I want to see what you were going to write, too. god, butterflies aren't that bright, are they. is it free yet?
Posted: May 21, 2009 5:09PM EDT
Periwinkle says:
Wish I had kept all the diaries and journals since childhood to now and maybe I could remember more to write a all encompassed Memoir for my kids and grandkids. My kids know alot about my life, perhaps more than they would ever have wanted to but somehow the pieces that I have missed and forgotten would make the Mom they know be more understandable than the Mom they know........
Posted: December 26, 2008 6:39PM EST
AbigailThomas says:
well once you start even with just a snippet of memory, a smell, a color, a song, you'll be surprised what else comes back. I lost all my early diaries too, but it forces me to try to remember in other ways, and sometimes opens up doors that would have been closed if I didn't have to come at it sideways. good luck to you in this endeavor. glad you're here
Posted: January 8, 2009 11:10AM EST
Cby says:
Hello Abigail,
I felt I needed to meet you at the same time that I have decided to leave the Memoirs Group. I have a deep desire to write my memoirs, but not at the moment. Email from the group was flooding my mailbox and I can barely keep up with the friends I've gained from this wonderful website. So while I am leaving the group I will be dropping by to read your Journals; to get an idea of what goes on behind that beautiful smile of yours.
Cby
Posted: December 15, 2008 8:33PM EST
RockyMountainGirl says:
I'm trying to imagine what your Christmas season must be like with a dozen Grandchildren....hope it is filled with lots of memory making moments!
Patricia
Posted: December 8, 2008 9:40AM EST
MamboLady says:
My writing could be called memoir, but I am also writing family history. I became hooked on genealogy while growing up in Virginia. You cannot ignore history if you live in Virginia, but to tell the truth, as a teenager I wasn't the slightest bit interested.
However, I couldn't avoid listening to my father and his family talk about numerous family members. Who were all these people? Luckily for me, I thought of interviewing Daddy and other relatives and taking notes. I didn't know how to do genealogical research and wanted to learn. At that time, in 1959, all you could find at the library were snobbish-sort of genealogy books, written by people who claimed to be descended from royalty or some famous historical figure. I just wanted to research plain old ordinary people.
To make a long story short (I never can seem to do that!) I put aside that interest, graduated from college, married, had two children and became involved in various pursuits.
When Alex Haley published "Roots," I was excited and encouraged. Since then, I have amassed an enormous amount of family information along with photographs. Yes, it's all organized in my genealogy software program, which spits out a report that some call a "book." Actually, the software-generated book is nothing more than a bunch of begats, and I want to write the stories I've heard and the stories I've discovered these past thirty years. And of course it is easier to write about your own family and relatives you know; writing about ancestors is a bit more work.
I have been attending four writing workshops a month for the past four years, which puts some pressure on me to prepare a story for the next workshop. Everyone provides suggestions and constructive criticism. I am the only family historian in our workshops; my stories generate the most interest and encourage reminiscing. I am having fun! I encourage anyone interesting in writing to join a writing workshop
Posted: November 9, 2008 3:41PM EST
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