Digital Photo Organizing 101 - Get In The Habit!

Create a Tempoary Holidng Folder on your computer desktop or in your Pictures folder After each photo occassion or at least every 2 weeks download your camera or phone memory card onto your computer in a temporary holding folder named “photos to sort “ on your desktop.  Be sure to double...
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Become Able

Become Able
STABLE OF ABLES You know that you are cap able and reli able , but how many other people know that? How well do you transmit that information?  Part of communicating information about yourself entails a willingness to assess your full Stable of Ables . Being cap able is only one...
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Why Analyse A Post-It-Note? Why Analyse Anything We Read?

Why Analyse A Post-It-Note?  Why Analyse Anything We Read?
  On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Analysis of a Post-It Note   On some occasions, the desire to write things down turns into exercises in analysis.  Some critics would point to his frequent efforts as one example of why Pellek, the...
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Five Things You Can Never Recover

Five Things You Can Never Recover
An old friend sent me an email today, where he lamented about his mother’s recent unexpected death. He, like I, is a personal historian – a professional who interviews living people about their life stories and preserves them for the future as a family legacy. His sorrow was compounded by the...
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Some Essentials For Story Tellers

Some Essentials For Story Tellers
On the road …again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   On Writing a Paper, or a Report, or a Book, or a Post-It-Note   People who have writing chores as part of their job descriptions have to follow certain guidelines when it comes to attaining...
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Technology, Responsibility, and Morality

Technology, Responsibility, and Morality
       Story Prompt:  As you look back, what are the three most incredible changes you have witnessed? I have chosen three areas of most incredible changes I have witnessed in the sixty-seven years I have lived.    These changes are sometimes for good, and at other times not so.  The changes that...
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The Roads I Have Taken

Wishing one could go back in time and relive some part of one’s life is tempting,  but with a little reflection it is easy to see that changin  perhaps even a small decision or action is loaded with unintended, life changing consequences.   The poet Robert Frost made this point clearly in...
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My Ancestors

LEGACY STORY PROMPT MY ANCESTORS ANSWER THIS LEGACY QUESTION: What information do you know about your ancestors that impacts your life today? MEMORY TRIGGERS- Use these memory triggers to help kick start legacy stories about your ancestors. Or, add your own. Where did your grandparents and/or great-grandparents come from? What did...
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