These are our stories

“What hooked me on family history was not names and dates. It was the handed-down stories that bring the dead back to life.” — Olive Ann...

Mary Ann (Beckman) Rasche Sept. 4, 1926-April 13, 2024 Funeral, April 17, 2024 On the first Saturday of September in 1926, in a two-story...

I've had a couple of Life Stories experiences lately in which the person I am writing about is deceased. Their stories are being told by...

A few weeks ago I spent a Sunday afternoon with a group of four siblings and some of their spouses and children. The gathering was in...

Sometimes the shortest stories are the most memorable. Two things from the funeral I attended recently have stayed with me. The minister...

Congratulations! Some of you already have started full-time jobs and others of you are looking forward to beginning college in the fall....

A local woman turned 100 this month and celebrated by taking a plane ride from the county airport. I caught her picture on a TV news...

"There is a reason the word history has, at its heart, the narrative of one's life." -- Jodi Picoult's "The Storyteller"

Once each on Jan. 13 and 14, I noticed my heart beating incredibly fast. Each event passed, and I went on as normal. By the second night...

I am the sixth of nine children. When I was in the third grade, all of my four older sisters went away to school; three were in college...

This month finds me celebrating a milestone anniversary as a Stampin’ Up! Independent demonstrator. Stampin’ Up! is a papercraft company...

I picked up another bound copy of life stories from the printer earlier this month. This time the stories are of my 97-year-old harmonica...

If you don’t have very important plans for 9 o’clock (Eastern time) tonight, I urge you to watch the PBS documentary about the mental...

As a child, my bedtime ritual — after brushing my teeth in the only bathroom our family of 11 had — started by dipping the fingers of my...

When I visit with my sister Barb and her husband, John, it never takes long for John to get into storytelling mode. He grew up in French...

During our recent icy weather, with my work at a local thrift store canceled, I spent time putting together the scrapbook of my September...

I recently came across some notes I took a few years ago during some “Remember When” discussion groups I led. They are just too good not...

My 95-year-old mother has resided in a nursing home for three months, and my siblings and I are all finding new ways to make the most of...

Three of my sisters and I went on a bus trip to Vermont last week. Another quartet of sisters also was along, as were multiple other...

“Within their pages, books contain the wisdom of the people who wrote them. Books never lose their memory.” — Professor Morgenstern in...