by Laura Hedgecock | Oct 31, 2018 | Family History
Discover Your Story. Discover Yourself. Discover RootsTech. Connect. Belong. That’s the RootsTech theme. And the best way to connect and belong is to be there. And, if you’re lucky, you can do it for free. RootsTech takes place over 4 days–Wednesday, February 27 –...
by Laura Hedgecock | May 8, 2018 | Family History, How-to, Journal writing, Writing and Sharing Memories
No Treasure Chest of Memories is complete without a description of our relationship with Mother. Of all our family relationships, our relationships with the woman (or women in some cases) who raised us are perhaps the most poignant. As Lori Gottlieb writes in Mother,...
by Laura Hedgecock | May 4, 2018 | Family History, How-to, Memories, Storytelling, Writing Advice
We all people, events, and situations in our lives, who (or which) determine the teeter of our life’s teeter-tooter. Writing about the fulcrums in our lives provides a unique glimpse into our circumstances and relationships with and affections for each other. Who...
by Laura Hedgecock | Apr 27, 2018 | Memories
Try as we might (or as I have), we can’t avoid marking the death anniversaries of loved ones. It’s unavoidable. Perhaps that’s because we need to remember our grief and gauge our progress. In Acknowledging Our Grief Anniversaries, John Pavlovitz describes the way the...
by Laura Hedgecock | Apr 19, 2018 | Memories, Writing and Sharing Memories
Today, we think of honeymoon trips as romantic getaways for a newly married couple. For Sid and Myrtle’s honeymoon, however, seems to be more along the lines of a nineteenth century “Bridal Tour,” a trip made to visit relatives who weren’t able to attend the...
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