“The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.”
Barbara Tuchman

Process and Offerings

As a personal historian, my goal is to capture your life stories, in whole or in part, and to present them in a variety of ways for you, your family and your community to cherish for generations to come.

The various options I offer include:

• Full-life hard cover books – the story of a lifetime.
• A theme book, which captures slices of people’s lives around a certain theme, such as a passion for gardening or sailing, a special trip, or, around a segment of one’s life, such as coming of age, a career, or a pregnancy and birth of a child.
• Eulogies and tributes. This option captures the essence of loved ones who have passed – what they were like and what they offered the world, to be shared online, in writing or spoken in the presence of loved ones.
• A tribute book is a a way of honouring someone who reaches a milestone in his or her life, such as an anniversary, retirement, a birthday or a highpoint in one’s career. This book could be a compilation of several voices, those who are and were important to this special person. This tribute book of stories and images could be presented to this person at a celebration or distributed electronically. This could also be a tribute to a family, in the form of a cookbook, with recipes, related stories and pictures, compiled of contributions from family or members of a community group.

The cost of these services would range from approximately $500 for a eulogy to about $6500 for a quality coffee table book documenting one’s whole life.

Contact me for a complimentary consultation to discuss the options that would work for you.

“ ‘What a waste’, he said. ‘All those people saying all those wonderful things and Irv never got to hear any of it.”
Mitch Albom

“I don’t know what it is about food your mother makes for you, especially when it’s something that anyone can make – pancakes, meat loaf, tuna salad – but it carries a certain taste of memory.” Mitch Albom

“Please pat yourself on the back for a job well done. Start to finish you handled the project so very well and produced a beautifully written book that will be treasured by family members. There is much to be said by having the opportunity to tell one’s story. Wish deepest gratitude for your persistence, kindness, and gift of writing.”

A.W.

“I want to let you know how much the family and I have enjoyed reading ‘My Life in Chapters.’ Thank you for doing such a marvellous job in writing up these memoirs.”

C.M.

“You certainly have a wonderful gift for writing, Anne. I felt as if I knew this amazing young woman by the time I finished reading just the one page.”

R.A.

“Anne, you have that special talent that so few have – to be able to take the words spoken and put them in text for so the many quiet voices that just want the respect of being heard.”

P.M.

“I just finished reading your lovely tribute to your brother. It was wonderful to read this loving letter about his story and character. It goes without saying that it was well written.”

S.B.

“Many thanks for the wonderful article in the February issue of Seaside Magazine. You did a superb job and really captured the marvellous, woman, teacher and friend of mine.”

S.D.

“The process of recounting my early years to Anne was so meaningful to me and surprisingly so easy. Bringing back many long-forgotten memories of family and my childhood antics was truly a joyful walk down memory lane.”

E.G.