Philosophical

Best Book Ever, Book / Author Quoted, Philosophical

17 Jun 2019

Declutter Sentimental Stuff with Story

Your sentimental stuff may be better off as story! Hear what the declutter professionals like Susan Gardner, Marie Kondo, Susan Middleton and personal historian Deborah Wilbrink advise when dealing with your old favorites, and those of others. Emotions may run…

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Best Book Ever, Illustration, Life Story Art, Philosophical

04 Mar 2018

Life Story Art: Family Trees

See some beautiful family tree artworks and explore your roots with personal historian Deborah Wilbrink.

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Best Book Ever, Book / Author Quoted, Local History, Memoir, Philosophical, Writing Coach

03 Feb 2018

Storms of Life: Weather in Memoir & Family History

How to use weather in both theme, story and data when writing your family history or memoir. Genealogist-scientist Randy Whited and personal historian Deborah Wilbrink.

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Best Book Ever, Book / Author Quoted, Memoir, Memory Information, Philosophical, Show & Tell

18 Oct 2017

Memories Deliver Fresh Insight

Writing your memoir can drop a chapter of your life into a new perspective.

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Book / Author Quoted, Philosophical, Time to Tell

16 Feb 2015

Time to Tell 3: Scarier than Public Speaking: Crowdfunding

Crowd funding, like public speaking, can be frightening. Will it be worth it? Time to Tell will be crowdfunding for completion soon on Kickstarter.

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Holiday, Memory Information, Philosophical, Time to Tell

02 Jan 2015

Change is Gonna Come

Deborah declares her intent for the 2015 blog: Tuesdays about Memory and Memorials; and Thursdays about current projects with Time to Tell.

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Book / Author Quoted, Memoir, Philosophical, Writing Coach

29 Oct 2014

Strong Values Make Marvelous Memoir, and Lives

Decades ago when I was a student studying to be an art teacher, one of my teachers told us that we should strive to be value neutral as teachers. I never spoke in class, but this statement disturbed me so much that I raised my hand and asked, “How can anyone be value neutral? Simply showing up in the classroom…

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Media, Philosophical, Writing Coach

18 Feb 2014

Animated History of the English Language

Writers love language! I love cartoons! Get the best of both with this eleven minute video. It's broken up into lessons so you can watch a bit at a time. After all, isn't the attention span down to six minutes, now? The more I think about that, the more I realize offering bits of information just contribute to forming that…

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Holiday, Memoir, Philosophical

10 Dec 2013

Seize the Day!

Start small...Write about what is happening right now so you can learn to write well about what happened yesterday. -- Beth Kephart, Handling the Truth Manning my booth at the Craft Fair during an impending ice storm, only the hardiest souls trickle by. But they are sometimes willing to share a story, so the day is punctuated with laughter and poignancy.…

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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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