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Books Available Now:  Family Folktales: Write Your Own Family Stories Karen Pierce Gonzalez
Paperback, $11.95 This workbook is available now! To order this book, please email us with your request for order information Excerpt: We all have memories we keep in our heart about certain people (e.g., members of the family or the community in which we live), special places and events (e.g., specific holidays or a childhood home), and cherished things (e.g., particular objects and/or heirlooms). Each of these tells a story. They are pieces of family history we want to pass on to future generations.
But, we have become a mobile society that no longer uses oral tradition as a primary way to share these stories. Often we live far from relatives and no longer sit around the dinner table recounting how one ancestor or another performed a magnificent feat in a surprisingly simple or unexpected manner or tell the touching details of a special time, such as a wedding proposal or long overdue family reunion. We rarely have time to even chat on the phone with our children, grandchildren, or great grandchildren about what we saw on a trip abroad or describe the family picnics that took place when we were young and everyone lived nearby.
But we still want to pass on precious information about our families so that grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and beyond will know something special and significant about ourselves and our earlier family members, prized heirlooms, or unforgettable experiences in other places. And we want to accomplish this in as simple and direct a way as possible.
But how? We can write family folktales. Here we can capture for all time short stories about what we know and remember without getting bogged down in the potentially cumbersome details of biographies or other lengthy writing projects.
Coming Soon..... Folktales You Can Eat Karen Pierce Gonzalez A collection of original literary folktales that celebrate the magic of food. Set in Central America and the Mediterranean these tales include tasty recipes and food lore. To be notified of the release of this book, email us! |
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