Author: Anne Spry

  • Revamping and retooling our stories and our businesses

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    Like most businesses and individuals, Personal Chapters has had several ‘makeovers.’ Cheri and Anne forged a new direction the day that our inventory had to be moved out of my house in Kansas City and to my new location in Topeka, KS. And guess what? We’re still retooling and revamping.

  • Livestream from a Cemetery

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    This video was recorded in 2020 in the initial formation of the Memoir Mentors Facebook Group…back when it started out as The Masked Memoirist during the early days of the pandemic. Cheri Battrick and Anne Spry talk about the sacred aspects of cemeteries. They’re live-streaming from the cemetery in Auburn, Kansas. And cemeteries are great…

  • Begin to craft your memoir with the “where” element

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    A member of our local memoir group has diligently applied herself to writing her personal history. But she needs a bit of direction to tackle the sudden appearance of an enormous “elephant” in the room. How to get started? When and where should she write? What aspect of her memoir should she tackle first? Her…

  • Superstitions and sayings: Part of our personality and folklore

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    The morning that my mother died I was sitting at the breakfast table drinking my coffee when a door downstairs slammed shut. It was precisely 8:00 a.m.  Five minutes later my stepfather called. “Your mother died at 8 o’clock. She opened her eyes like she was surprised, and she took her last breath.” I immediately…