Welcome to Tapestry

With words and photos, personal history brings your story to life! Sharing values, experiences, and family history connects  generation to generation. It’s more than facts and dates on a family tree. Whether in a guided workshop or one-on-one coaching, recording your legacy together, one story at a time, is easy and rewarding. When you assemble those stories and photos, your life weaving comes together. Preserve it in a book, and you’ve created a priceless treasure. 

In-person and online workshops are available. I also offer spiritual life and intergenerational workshops. 

Life Story Workshops - Writing in a group setting, participants learn from and inspire each other while sharing stories and recalling memories. Participants meet for two hours each week. No writing experience is necessary. Each session provides exercises and themes to help participants organize and write their stories from the heart. Sign up below to learn about upcoming workshops.

Legacy letters actually originated thousands of years ago and continue today as a way to share values, wisdom, life lessons, and blessings with loved ones and future generations. 

Legacy letters may be written to individuals or as one letter to an entire family/group. They may be one page or several and read while the writer is alive or after their passing. They are not legal documents but may accompany a traditional will or medical directive to explain the decisions made in those documents. Special moments and celebrations are other opportunities to share blessings and gratitude in a legacy letter. 

Individuals in hospice or in early stages of memory loss find value and comfort in the legacy letter process.

Most importantly, writing a legacy letter involves self-reflection and communicating what matters most to the writer. Passing on those values and blessings to future generations provides connection and a sense of being heard and remembered. It is passing on one’s legacy.

I facilitate legacy letter writing for individuals as well as groups through one-day or multi-day workshops, in person or online, on a variety of themes. I also offer presentations to groups. Please reach out if you or your group, church, or business would like to learn more.

Slideshows have come a long way since I created my first one for a national conference back in the early 1980s. The slides were carefully placed in the slide carousel, synced to music played from a cassette, and shown in a large ballroom. I enjoyed the project so much, I thought how wonderful it would be to create slideshows for other events.

Forty years later, here I am — a dream come true! I am creating slideshows for memorials, birthdays, weddings, anniversaries, and more. Best of all, so much has changed, making it a more creative process and outcome. Photos are digitized, video clips and captions may be added, creative transitions can be used, and oh, the music. The completed slideshows, also called photo montage videos, are downloaded onto a thumb drive or sent by a shareable link, and they can be viewed with a computer, TV, projector, digital frame, or video book.

We not only consider pets as family members, but they become our best friends. They see us at our best and worst, yet they love us unconditionally—what better way to honor and remember than to share stories about your beloved pet?

Workshops include four sessions lasting two hours each. During this time, participants will receive tips, themes, prompts, and ideas for how to write short stories about their special pet and share stories in the group. Just imagine how much fun a group of animal lovers sharing stories will be!  

Books are an excellent way to honor and remember your pet. Stories about their personalities, adventures, and relationships, along with photos, are woven together in a beautiful lay-flat book.

Do you have years of photos stashed away in boxes, closets, or drawers? Did you inherit even more boxes of old photos? Protect, preserve, and organize those photos and documents so that they may be enjoyed.

Whether you want to include photos in your life story project or another type of photo project, the first step is to get them organized. I can help you organize and choose the best archival storage options for your needs. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to present and share those photos with other family members?

Photo Organizing Workshops - Participants each bring a box of photos and learn how easy it can be to organize them in simple steps. We also cover safe handling and storage.​​