When I started working with Lynda Spinelli, she was excited to write her memoir about surviving cancer, but she had no idea where to start. She told me that she was not a writer, but she still wanted to tell her story to help cancer patients from the holistic community. We met for four storytelling hours plus an hour for photo selection. You can read a few pages of My Protocol: How I Broke the Rules and Survived Cancer on Amazon.

When he was in his early twenties, William "Papa Bill" Ewald caught a bank robber. He told his family his intriguing story as part of his audio memoir. For Christmas the next year, I helped his grandchildren create a children's book telling the story. I crafted the rhyming text for the story, and his grandchildren drew and colored the pictures. After we presented Papa Bill with the book, I recorded him reading the story for his future great-grandchildren. It was a fun project that will touch many generations to come!

We also recorded nearly ten hours of Bill's audio memoir. One story about his childhood is featured below.

When Richie Mastroianni learned he was about to embark on a difficult medical treatment, he wanted to tell his family a few things—but they weren't ready to face the fact that they might lose him. I worked with Richie to complete his Words of Wisdom mini-memoir that captured many of the thoughts and feelings he wanted to share. In addition, I helped him write eighteen letters to his loved ones and a personal statement to be read at his Celebration of Life service. The letters were set aside to be delivered after he passed away. I was blessed to know Richie for more than two years after our first meeting. The world was so much better because he was in it. Richie's wife, Diane, now takes comfort in listening to her husband's voice as he dictated his love letter.