It has been 30 years since the first official national recognition of Martin Luther King’s birthday as a National Holiday in 1986. Much changes in thirty years. Undoubtedly articles across the web today will mention how Arizona, the place I live, did not initially observe the Martin Luther King Federal Holiday when it was first designated […]
Tucson, Five Years On
Lives changed as lives were lost five years ago today when Tucson changed forever. It was not the first time Tucson opened her arms and gathered survivors of mass gun violence to her breast to hold and heal families in her embrace. October 29th 2002 Robin E. Rogers, Barbara Monroe, and Cheryl McGaffic, all instructors in the U of […]
January Prompts
Prompts are effective elicitation tools. Blog editors and publishers write prompts to motivate other writers to write about topics suggested in the prompt. Not all writers, not even all online writers, are bloggers. People also write, podcast, and create video streams for posterity, as journals, and as subject reference articles. So, these prompts are published […]
When Christmas Hurts
A huge hurt builds inside me. My father died on Christmas Day 1986. It is a familiar, old hurt. This year it is freshly layered with new hurts and loss. Five months ago the my last living brother died. He was the eldest of my siblings. 13 months ago my brother who was closest to […]
Last Minute Legacy Gifts
There has recently been a flurry of new products related to capturing social media posts, digitizing images and letters, as well as platforms for capturing audio stories. This was discussed in an earlier WLP post. But which one do you choose as a gift in the short week before Christmas? Turn around time is the […]
17 Ways to Capture Legacy Stories Now
Capturing stories There are wonderful companies out there who help you record a short interview with a grandparent or elder member of your family. Have one made, you will be glad you did. There are ways to do this yourself. In this age of selfies, and self-produced video, though, there are wonderful, fairly easy, and […]