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Declutter your photos: keep what matters
Unlimited storage removed the act of choosing. The result: thousands of images and no memory that stands out. Decluttering is not a filing chore, it is an act of memory.
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An alternative to the family WhatsApp group: stepping out of the feed
The family WhatsApp group swallows photos, speeds up conversations, turns family into an audience. There is another way to keep the thread alive.
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Staying in touch with parents long distance, beyond the phone call
Phone calls thin out, not from a lack of love but from a lack of substance. Here is another way to stay close to parents who live far.
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The first month after they leave: when your child moves abroad
The early calls are frequent and practical. What you put down in those first few weeks lasts longer than what you will say a year from now, because memory holds beginnings.
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Sharing memories with family abroad
When family lives in several countries, shared memories hold more value than news. Here is how to put them down so the distance doesn't swallow them.
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Writing the story behind a family photo: three lines are enough
You have eight thousand photos on your phone, and not one of them says what you actually see in it. Here is a tiny habit that keeps the photo telling who, where and why, even thirty years from now.
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Sharing your childhood with your children, without writing a memoir
Your children know the adult you became. They know almost nothing about the child you once were. What fades fastest isn't an event, it's the texture of ordinary days.
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How to start writing your life story: a gesture, not a project
We're told that writing your story takes a project, a plan, a chronology. It doesn't. It takes one gesture, tonight, in fifteen minutes.
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Writing where you come from: your village, your house, your people
Writing where you come from doesn't require tracing a family tree. Start from what comes back when you close your eyes: a place, a few people, a handful of gestures, the sounds of a morning.
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Same place every summer: writing thirty years of returning
You have been going back for twenty, thirty, sometimes forty summers. The family holiday place holds an intimate geography no photograph captures. Here is how to set it down.
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Passing down a family garden: writing the gestures so they hold
A family garden is not passed on through tools alone. It holds a calendar, learned gestures, chosen varieties. Here is how to set all that down on paper, so it goes on.
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Sunday family meal: writing it down so it gets passed on
The Sunday family meal carries more than a menu. It holds a voice, an order, rituals that nobody ever writes down. Here is how to set them down, so they keep being played out.
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How to write a family biography without becoming a writer
A family biography isn't written in one sitting, nor by one person. It's a shared notebook filled by questions, over several months, with several voices.
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70th birthday gift ideas: beyond the usual choices
Seventy is neither a peak nor a heavy threshold. It's a beautiful decade opening. The right gift accompanies the years to come, rather than crowning the ones gone by.
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Letter to your child getting married: what you don't say aloud
The microphone, on the morning of the wedding, isn't made for the sentences you truly carry. Those, you write beforehand, and you set them aside for the years that follow.
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Sensory memories: writing the smells, gestures and sounds
The smell of bread from your grandmother's oven, the creak of her door, the precise gesture she made to crack an egg. These are the first memories to leave. Here's how to keep them.
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Writing summer memories: what doesn't fit in a photograph
A photograph keeps the face, not the voice. Not the smell of warm pine. Not the sentence spoken that evening, walking. Here's how to write a summer memory so it stays.
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Original Mother's Day gift idea: for a mother who needs nothing
When the list of possible gifts runs out, what's left is what matters: what marks the relationship, what lasts, what's kept long after the day itself.
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What to pass on to your grandchildren: more than an inheritance
What you pass on to your grandchildren rarely fits in a safe. It looks more like a voice, a gesture, written sentences that will be there for them.
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Writing a letter to your children: starting without making it an event
A letter to your children doesn't have to be a written will. It can fit on a page, said simply, kept for later or offered today.
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Family memory book: what goes in it, and how to make one
A family memory book isn't only a photo album. It gathers what would otherwise drift away: voices, gestures, recipes, anecdotes.
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Retirement gift ideas: three directions that last
Retirement is a threshold. The gifts that mark it well aren't the ones you consume, but the ones that accompany the years opening up.
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Original gift ideas for parents: stepping off the beaten path
Why gifts for parents become harder to choose with time, and three ideas to offer something that truly looks like them, without falling into the usual clichés.
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Passing on family recipes: gather, write, keep
Gathering the recipes of a mother, a grandmother, an uncle who cooks well, is one of the simplest, and most precious, projects of family transmission.
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Questions to ask your parents: what makes the difference
The right questions to ask your parents aren't always the ones you'd expect. Here's how to open the conversation, and thirty directions across major themes.
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Writing your memoirs at your own pace: starting without making a book
Writing your memoirs requires neither aiming at a masterpiece, nor following a chronological order. You can start anywhere, at your own pace, and keep the freedom of the fragment.
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