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Sherry
I am a personal historian. I help people capture and chronicle their life stories.
Interests: family, friends, stories, food, movies, books, travel,
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While I was away we experienced the arrival of our first grandchild. It was a whirlwind adventure that took my daughter-in-law on a heightened birthing adventure, and sent my son racing back from business out of town to try and... Continue reading
Posted May 2, 2013 at Storied Gifts
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Life can be sloppy so it behooves us to find the beauty in it. I'm thinking a lot about beauty today, the ways it is present, and those places I help nudge it along. I find beauty in: Nature People... Continue reading
Posted Apr 22, 2013 at Storied Gifts
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I was going to start out by explaining yet another cop out post but then I realized not everything I write will be carefully thought out. Sometimes life is just happening and I'm posting about it. It has been a... Continue reading
Posted Apr 21, 2013 at Storied Gifts
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You know that bit about the guy with the beer belly sitting up to the bar stool regaling nearby listeners of his great days on the football field? Well, I think I officially have become THAT guy. It ratchets up... Continue reading
Posted Apr 20, 2013 at Storied Gifts
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Mostly because I can't stand watching anymore coverage on the news, because I'm in a waiting mode, and also because when I woke up for the third time this morning there was sunshine outside . . . sing it Willie!... Continue reading
Posted Apr 20, 2013 at Storied Gifts
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I know that's how it goes but it still gets me. I'm puttering along with a "plan" and then life happens. It's all good and fine, this change of plans. I can't be public about it on websites or elsewhere... Continue reading
Posted Apr 18, 2013 at Storied Gifts
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A sleepover, early morning hours when all other topics are exhausted, we are girlfriends sharing our war stories. It's the proverbial swap when everyone is too tired to get up and go to bed, and wanting to keep at talking... Continue reading
Posted Apr 17, 2013 at Storied Gifts
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Listening to a piece of music is an audio museum. Even if I don't know the background story of the melody, I can almost imagine the people that would have enjoyed this music. Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Germany... Continue reading
Posted Apr 16, 2013 at Storied Gifts
Lovely photos. Do you have recipes for the dishes pictured?
Toggle Commented Apr 16, 2013 on Whirlwind weekend at Delightfully Domestic
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Apr 16, 2013
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I'm doing the uncharacteristic thing and cooking a meal. Other than that, I've been writing chapter one of a client's life story. It's Monday, gray, colder than it would normally be for this time of year in mid-April and I... Continue reading
Posted Apr 15, 2013 at Storied Gifts
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DO IT. YOU CAN DO IT. JUST . . . DO IT. We're told to reach, that the sky is the limit. Yet the sky has an end, places where layers turn into something upon something else. We live in... Continue reading
Posted Apr 14, 2013 at Storied Gifts
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How many sunny days have you had in your life? If I tally up my almost 51 years of days I'm sure the larger portion of them have been filled with sunshine. It's a particularly happy day for sun as... Continue reading
Posted Apr 13, 2013 at Storied Gifts
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Apr 12, 2013
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Is it possible that as we age we become our gentler selves? I'm noticing changes in how I view the world and others in particular. Maybe it has to do with the prospect of grandchildren, or shedding away some of... Continue reading
Posted Apr 12, 2013 at Storied Gifts
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I've always been curious but I didn't know that quality would translate into honing interview skills for a business until six years ago. That's when I started working on personal histories and conducting interviews for podcasts. I learned that as... Continue reading
Posted Apr 11, 2013 at Storied Gifts
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It's a good thing. We need it, but boy does it make me want to curl up and do nothing. I'm forging ahead anyway but there are a list of things I would rather do with a rainy day. Curl... Continue reading
Posted Apr 10, 2013 at Storied Gifts