Category: People
What Do You Tell Your Children?
Research shows how important it is for children to hear those stories, and how much better they do if they know them.
Memoir: Do You Tell?
How do you choose to alert people who appear in your books that you are writing about them—or do you not alert them at all?
Content Marketing & Amazing People
Recently I wrote some articles for Full Life Hawaii, and I thought I’d share them here as an example of one type of content marketing.
Investigating a Life – But Whose?
It’s a novel, albeit one using primary historical sources, about a biography. It’s a little complicated to describe, but it works.
Writing & Reading Memoir
It’s heartfelt stuff, hearing a person’s stories and learning what they mean to the person.
Memoir: Isabella Bird in the Sandwich Islands
“There is also a dog, but he does not understand English.”— Isabella Bird, from The Hawaiian Archipelago
Swabbing My Cheek For Deep Ancestry
There’s family history and then there’s family history. I’m going deep.
I just swabbed the inside of both my cheeks, put the swabs into a vial, and stuck them in a package, ready to zip it off to National Geographic’s Genographic Project.