Many Boomers are at a stage where family memories have great meaning. 
They also are into scrapbooking and journaling.  They often are caregivers for parents or relatives and find themselves saving those persons’ memories for children, grandchildren and future generations.
They realize, as Mma Ramotswe did, in the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, about her father:  His life was unrecorded; who is there to write down the lives of ordinary people?
There are members of my family, who have died without children or spouse or anyone to record their lives.  If I don’t do it, who will?  Will they be simply a statistic …read more

As I sorted through some of my mother’s collection of memorabilia, I came across lists and letters and account summaries of her years operating a small country general store on the edge of our farm property.
My dad and a friend built it and the friend managed the business.  When he had a heart attack, Mother (a former school teacher, who had no storekeeping experience) decided she would operate it.  So during my last year of high school and my college years, I spend weekends and vacations working at the store and on the farm my father owned.
Mother didn’t make a fortune.  …read more