Chasing Fireflies: Conversations

Thanksgiving alert. Our newest H2L podcast contains a simple tip for great family storytelling that is one of the best suggestions we've heard. It is built around your upcoming Thanksgiving family gathering. Heritage2Legacy.com

The Heritage2Legacy Project: Identifying and preserving your family memories.

Let's say you have listened to our podcasts about the importance of capturing and retelling important family stories. And you agree – storytelling helps create a child's sense of identity and can pass along key family values. But maybe this is a painful subject for you because the story of your childhood contains few positive memories you want to tell your children and grandchildren. What then? Allow Dr. David Gyertson to tell you his story."

Are you identifying and preserving your family memories?

A family's story keeper seems to remember in delightful detail, key moments in their clan's history and they tell cherished tales again and again without losing our interest.

On this edition of Chasing Fireflies you will hear the epic tale of one such keeper.

The Heritage2Legacy Project: Identifying and preserving your family memories.

What were your Mom and Dad's favorite parenting sayings? You know, the ones that sounded like, "Put that stick down or you'll poke your eye out." We've assembled a few of our favorites for this edition of the H2L podcast. Join us, and stop crossing your eyes or they'll stay that way. Heritage2Legacy.com

"The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people – no mere father and mother – as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born." – Pearl S. Buck

This H2L memory? Cherished Family Reunion Memories.

Our new Heritage2Legacy short story is a two-fer. We tell a story in tribute to Billy Graham's historic ministry. And we suggest one of your family tales deserves the label – greatest of all. Two stories for the price of one (free).

The Heritage2Legacy Project: Identifying and preserving your family memories.

Our newest Heritage2Legacy short story is a tale of a common family experience – childhood fantasies of growing up and becoming…whatever. We describe a children's book on the subject about superstar Michael Jordan, then illustrate how you could tell related family stories. Childhood dreams coming true, or not, this H2L podcast.

The Heritage2Legacy Project: Identifying and preserving your family memories.

Tis the season for shimmering Christmas trees and lustrous decorations, colorfully wrapped gifts and joyous family reunions. Our next Heritage2Legacy short story is about several of our reunions, many unapologetically quirky. Join us for Family Holiday Gatherings, Surprises, and Approved Lying.

Do you have a Christmas memory that involves a surprise?

The Heritage2Legacy Project: Identifying and preserving your family memories.

Our next Heritage2Legacy short story takes us back to our small childhood home in Western PA, to cold wintry evenings and to four kids opening the front door to the smell of mother's baking fresh out of the oven. And there are recipes. Homemade Crusty Bread and Apple Butter, next at H2L.

The Heritage2Legacy Project: Identifying and preserving your family memories.

Our new Heritage2Legacy short tale is full of family faith stories – a barren couple who bore four children, a father of littles who lost his job on a Friday and went back to work on Monday. A hearty dose of inspiration - on this H2L podcast.