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Santa Monica: Santa Monica Press. New. 2002. Paperback. Illus. . 309 pages. The author provides step-by step instructions on how Senior Adults can turn their vast reservoir of memories into fascinating memoirs, fiction, poetry, children's storybooks, and more. Practical tips are included for getting started, generating ideas, working with a first draft, revising, editing, and sharing one's writing with others. <I>Exploring Our Lives</I> is guaranteed to fire up your imagination and put you on the road to creating a legacy for future generations to cherish and enjoy! .

New York: William Morrow & Co. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1991. Hardcover. 234 pages. A guide to bringing the lost art of storytelling into the family offers a ten-step program and provides tools for triggering the memory of life stories .

Point Roberts, WA: Hartley & Marks. Near Fine. 1997. Second Edition. Paperback. 232 pages .

Point Roberts, WA: Hartley & Marks. Near Fine. 1990. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 175 pages .

Athens, OH: Swallow Press / Ohio University Press. Near Fine. 1997. Trade Paperback. 155 pages .

New York: Doubleday. New in New dust jacket. 2000. Hardcover. 160 pages. A wonderful companion to the best-selling <I>To Our Children's Children</I>, <I>One Memory at a Time</I> offers indispensable guidance and encouragement on writing family and personal histories. Family history isn't hard. We do it every day without thinking about it. Our minds travel in that direction. Our minds are always going home. Family stories are our points of reference in every situation. They are involuntary responses, like sneezes. We see a hat worn by a man on an old movie channel and our minds jump to grandfather; his hat, his chair, his Scottie on his lap. We roll our cart by the butcher case at the grocery store and a passing glimpse at cubes of stew beef transports us momentarily to mother's kitchen, where she reaches for her blue-speckled roasting pan, the one with the lid. When you give your stories, you are giving yourself. You are giving your parents, your… Read More

New York: Doubleday. New in New dust jacket. 1993. Hardcover. 1.3 x 9.2 x 6.1 Inches. 224 pages. An accessible guide to creating written and oral histories provides the average reader with a methodology for preserving family history and passing it on to future generations. 35,000 first printing. National ad/promo. Tour. .

Provo: Ancestry, Inc.. New. 1998. Paperback. 157 pp., index. .