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		<title>5 Amazingly Easy Prompts to Jump Start Writing your Family Story</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Writing your family history sounds like a daunting task. However,  if you start with small, episodic memories and narratives, it doesn’t have to be hard. Your Family Story is Your Story Don&#8217;t worry about documenting a comprehensive history of all your ancestors and relatives. Instead, tell your own story with your family and its history <a href='http://treasurechestofmemories.com/2013/05/23/5-amazingly-easy-prompts-to-jump-start-writing-your-family-story/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>How to Write About a Childhood Home</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last month,  we looked at Writing about your Childhood Home.   &#8220;Come with me back to my Childhood Home&#8221; was the title that my grandmother used when she left us a piece about one of the homes of her childhood in her &#8220;Treasure Chest of Memories.&#8221; (See My Story: The First Treasure Chest of Memories.) She was <a href='http://treasurechestofmemories.com/2013/05/20/childhood-home/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>My Song</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“Five Minute Friday” is a great writing exercise even if you’re not blogging your treasures (memories). Your spontaneous thoughts on a given subject can reveal your personality, daily life, beliefs, etc. If you are blogging, I encourage you to join in! If you want to connect on Twitter, use the hashtag #FiveMinuteFriday. This week’s Prompt: <a href='http://treasurechestofmemories.com/2013/05/17/my-song/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Write About Grandparents: How to and Why</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Memories of grandparents are a treasure. That&#8217;s why it&#8217;s so important to write about grandparents when we preserve our stories. Not everyone has had the privilege of knowing any, much less all, of their grandparents. The luckier among us grew up in the same town as their grandparents and have had (or had) them as <a href='http://treasurechestofmemories.com/2013/05/17/write-about-grandparents/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>May Flowers—How to Honor the Family Gardener</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s post is part of the LinkedIn “May Flowers” Two-Day Blog Hop. I hope you&#8217;ve enjoyed your hop so far and I&#8217;m glad you&#8217;re here. If you’re on Day 1 of the hop and are coming from Krysthle Poitras’ blog Krysthle’s Designs you are in the right place! (If you landed here first and want <a href='http://treasurechestofmemories.com/2013/05/15/how-to-honor-the-family-gardner/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://treasurechestofmemories.com/2013/05/15/how-to-honor-the-family-gardner/</link>
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		<title>How to Create a Written Time Capsule</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When we’re anticipating a milestone event, we focus on the event itself, not what is going on in the world around us.  Later on, however, it’s fun to look back in context of what was happening in the world around us. For those that read about our memories decades later, such a written time capsule <a href='http://treasurechestofmemories.com/2013/05/13/how-to-create-a-written-time-capsule/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://treasurechestofmemories.com/2013/05/13/how-to-create-a-written-time-capsule/</link>
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		<title>How to Find a Creative Space for Writing about your Memories</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A good creative space for writing can facilitate your memory journal writing or blogging, not to mention your recall. But, let’s face it. Very few of us can write anywhere. Finding your groove may involve finding a physical space—your actual groove. Distractions “Turn off the distractions,” sounds easy, but what actually distracts you?  In my <a href='http://treasurechestofmemories.com/2013/05/09/finding-a-creative-space/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://treasurechestofmemories.com/2013/05/09/finding-a-creative-space/</link>
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		<title>Wild Weather&#8211;12 Ways to Preserve Meteorological Memories</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; In her post today, Staci Troilio points out that unseasonal weather makes an intriguing backdrop for fiction stories. Since life is so frequently stranger than fiction, that goes double to those of us writing about and collecting family memories. Though not quite meeting the bar of &#8220;wild weather,&#8221; last weekend we attended an outdoor <a href='http://treasurechestofmemories.com/2013/05/06/wild-weather/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://treasurechestofmemories.com/2013/05/06/wild-weather/</link>
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		<title>Video Clips – 6 Ways to Preserve Memories</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Video cameras are getting smaller and less expensive. Here are some great ways to use video clips to preserve and share your memories. If you’re blogging, it’s easy to embed a clip into your blog. If you’re using paper and pin, simply transfer the recording to a disc or USB-drive and attach the case to <a href='http://treasurechestofmemories.com/2013/05/03/video-clips-6-ways-to-preserve-memories/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://treasurechestofmemories.com/2013/05/03/video-clips-6-ways-to-preserve-memories/</link>
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		<title>Scanning Old Photos</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Digitizing Your Photo Archives and Scanning Old Photos How do you get your photo archives into digital (CD or hard drive) format? If you’re like me, you have boxes, organizers, and albums of photos, not to mention slides and negatives. How to you get the best of the best into digital format? Of course, scanning <a href='http://treasurechestofmemories.com/2013/05/01/scanning-old-photos/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://treasurechestofmemories.com/2013/05/01/scanning-old-photos/</link>
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