From the monthly archives:

April 2008

Honesty Is the Best Policy

by Memoir Mentor on April 25, 2008

As my spring classes at Santiago Canyon College wind down, some of my students have taken some risks recently in the stories they’ve written for class. They’ve revealed feelings about people and past incidents that have stretched beyond the typical safe stories I often see from my students. If anyone is fence-sitting about whether they [...]

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Santa Barbara and Character Development

by Memoir Mentor on April 3, 2008

Last Saturday, I gave a four-hour presentation to an enthusiastic group of genealogists who belong to the Santa Barbara County Genealogy Society. The 75 who attended want to reshape their genealogy data into a story so it will be more accessible to their family. They know that pedigree charts and family group sheets are primarily [...]

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