The following stories and posts are geared toward helping you brainstorm your own life story and memoir projects. If you have any questions or would like to schedule a life story oral history project for a loved one, as a holiday gift, please contact us at mary@documentedlegacy.com. Note: Several of the stories posted are older, but still worthy of sharing.

Three Holiday Activities To Engage Loved Ones

Yahoo Finance

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/3-holiday-activities-engage-loved-152457054.html

Michelle Obama Just Launched A Becoming Journal Based On Her Memoir.

She Knows

https://www.sheknows.com/living/articles/2130175/michelle-obama-becoming-journal/

From Cross Dressers to coaches, the D.C. History Conference will have it all

The Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/from-cross-dressers-to-coaches-the-dc-history-conference-will-have-it-all/2019/11/18/89535c38-09a8-11ea-97ac-a7ccc8dd1ebc_story.html

Copy Editing Resources

Journalist’s Toolbox

https://www.journaliststoolbox.org/2019/11/04/copy_editing_resources/

True Stories, Told Live

The Hour

https://www.thehour.com/news/article/True-Stories-Told-Live-brings-laughter-tears-13124135.php

The House That Homer Built: Remembering a Cooperstown Celebrity

The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/28/sports/baseball-hall-of-fame-homer-osterhoudt.html

Memoir captures what it’s like growing up poor, gay and black in Camden

Courier Post

https://www.courierpostonline.com/story/life/2018/08/06/camden-native-darnell-moore-memoir-poor-gay-black/755921002/

Houses Hold Memories Worth Preserving

Newsday

https://newsday.co.tt/2018/08/05/houses-hold-memories-worth-preserving/

The age of autofiction is here: How do writers feel about writing novels from their own lives.

Scoll In

https://scroll.in/article/889230/the-age-of-autofiction-is-here-how-do-writers-feel-about-writing-novels-from-their-own-lives

Hunter Valley woman Lorraine Hall writes about healing from childhood trauma

The Advertiser

https://www.cessnockadvertiser.com.au/story/5559265/survivor-shares-story-of-healing-and-hope/?cs=459

Grandson keeps memory alive through nook

The Monitor

https://www.themonitor.com/news/local/article_a362fd48-9921-11e8-9341-a778c10ff027.html

[Note: This story is proof that you can finish a project started by family elders.]