Music

Best Book Ever, Memoir, Memory Information, Music, Writing Coach

15 Nov 2019

MUSICAL MEMOIR

Music triggers memories you can use to expand your memoir writing, making for a musical memoir!

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Best Book Ever, Book / Author Quoted, Event, Memoir, Music

23 Aug 2018

The Bluegrass Family History

“Where did the morning go?” sings bluegrass band Blue Highway – a reflection many ponder as we grow older. Bluegrass fans and artists are very aware of family history, and make up a family! Personal historian shares Memories from World…

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Local History, Memoir, Music, Show & Tell, Time to Tell

09 Apr 2015

Kidnapped! Startling Stories from Show & Tells: Time to Tell 6

Mabel’s true story about a baby-kidnapping ring is poignant and universal. She inspired the song Time to Tell.

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Book / Author Quoted, Event, Music, Time to Tell

15 Mar 2015

Opportunity is Ticking, It’s Time to Tell 4!

Now is the Time to Tell Your Family & Personal History! It just got easier... for you to "tell", and easier to persuade someone you love that it's time to tell! This project started with a song inspired by Mabel's Story about her early life, kidnapped from a cotton field. She wanted to get that recorded!  Soon I found myself…

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Local History, Memoir, Music, Show & Tell, Time to Tell

08 Jan 2015

Time to Tell 1: The Baby Kidnapper

Mabel’s true story about a baby-kidnapping ring is poignant and universal. She inspired the song Time to Tell.

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Book / Author Quoted, Music, Writing Coach

21 Mar 2014

Dolly Parton Uses Imagination in Writing

  Blue Smoke by Dolly Parton  (If you can't see the video above, you can click the title to hear the song.) Dolly has the imagination of a great writer. Even her charity promoting reading at a young age is called Imagination Station. With a song called Blue Smoke, Dolly draws from her imagination as well as roots with the bluegrass,…

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Local History, Memoir, Music, Philosophical

07 Nov 2013

Farm Memories from Jesse McRae

Many of America's memoirs deal with a life on the farm that the rest of us can only imagine. Here's one tribute from my friend, Jesse McRae, to small farm life that's rapidly passing. Or is it? With the local foods movement, I see many younger people taking up small farming. What memories can you share about farming? Any farmers…

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Memoir, Music

18 Jun 2013

Falling Star Song for Rita

Recently a beloved friend died after a stalwart battle with cancer. Rita had smiles and a glow for many, she was a teacher and practitioner of Buddhism. As I walked past my guitar the next morning, it called to me, and Falling Star is the result. Fortunately, her family allowed me to sing and play it at the funeral, and…

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Media, Memoir, Music, Philosophical

04 Jan 2013

House Concert in Nashville

Memory Lane writers perform in Nashville.

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Memoir, Memory Information, Music

17 Dec 2012

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: Another Nose For Truth in Memoir

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer’s origin teaches us the meaning of truth in memoir.

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