Use Actions to Jump Start Memoir Writing

Action doesn’t have to be a large commitment. It doesn’t need a complicated plan or a large chunk of your time. Many things, including adding a bit of daily writing to your day, can be done in very small steps.
Carve fifteen minutes out of your morning to write a hundred words and in a month [...]

Spreading Happiness by Sharing Memories in Letters

The wife of my mother’s only cousin is turning 90 in a few days. (Happy Birthday, Cousin Pauline!) I had a card ready to pop in the mail, but I didn’t want to send off wishes for her big day without adding a personal note.
It would have been easier for me to scribble a few [...]

Finding the Perfect Vessel to “Hold Your Thoughts”

Awareness is not the same as thought. It lies beyond thinking, although it makes no use of thinking, honoring it’s value and it’s power. Awareness is more like a vessel which can hold and contain our thinking, helping us to see and know our thought as thought rather than getting caught up in them as [...]

Why Write Memoir? – There is Purpose in Your Words

Typically the Memoir Space doesn’t follow the monthly themes on the Calm Space – the themes don’t apply as readily to writing memoir as they do to the other Spaces. But when I read that this month’s theme was “purpose”, it seemed to be a good fit.
I’ve been asked questions about writing memoirs from friends, [...]

Make a Photo Keepsake Booklet For Your Memoir Project

We’ve done writing projects the first two months on the Memoir Space. Now is a good time to branch out and add a multimedia touch to our memoir. We’ll add an easy photography project.
No need to have an expensive camera or a camera that does all kinds of fancy things, unless that is the kind [...]

Writing Memoir – Using A Favorite Search Engine as Your Personal Muse

The memoir project for our second month uses an easy research tool to prompt your memoir writing. (If you missed the introduction on memoir writing, and the first memoir project using list writing, check out February’s Memoir Space.)
Using the internet for research provides a great avenue for retrieving memories. Here is a simple technique for [...]

Collecting the Memories of a Life: An Introduction to Writing Your Memoirs

Have you ever thought about writing your memoir?
“Nope, it’s way too hard,” you think.
That is exactly what I thought, too, until my 85 year old mother unintentionally gave me the nudge I needed.
My mother has always been quite secretive about her life, never one to share stories. On a visit several months ago, she mentioned [...]