Mom,
Tell Me Your Story
A guided life-story journal designed to help her preserve the memories, lessons, people, and moments that made her who she is.
By WistMem · Paperback & hardcover · 7 × 10 in · 160 pages · English
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Preview the Questions
Before she was Mom,
she was finding her way.
The friend she could tell anything. The song she played again and again. The hopes she carried before anyone called her Mom.
Give her a question, a little time, and room to answer in her own words. You might recognize something of yourself in a story you have never heard.
Start a conversation with MomYou know her as Mom. There is more to the story.
Before you knew her, she had favorite places, private ambitions, embarrassing moments, friendships, heartbreaks, first jobs, bad ideas, good advice, and ordinary days that became part of who she is. This journal gives her room to tell those stories in her own words.
Room for a whole life.
12 chapters, 96 main questions, and space for the details. Each question has an optional memory cue and a lined response page. There is no daily schedule; begin anywhere and skip anything you prefer to keep private.
The places I began
The child I was
School and friendship
A life opening up
Work and what mattered
People I have loved
Becoming Mom
Our ordinary days
What we pass around
When things changed
The person I am now
What I want you to know
Made for stories in your own handwriting.
160 black-and-white pages include room for recipes, photo stories, important people, timelines, a remembered place, letters, and extra memories. Write independently or invite someone you trust to help record your words.
7 × 10 inch paperback and hardcover editions, designed for handwriting. Print editions only; no ebook is planned. See the current ordering status above.
Ask about the details.
Five questions from the journal. Below, explore three actual interior pages.
- What did your childhood home sound like in the morning?
- What could keep you happily occupied for an entire afternoon?
- Who could always make you laugh when you were young?
- What family tradition meant more to you than everyone else realized?
- What do you understand now that you wish you had understood sooner?
A gift she completes—and gives back to the family.
Write a note inside. Choose one question together. Let her decide which memories she would like to leave on these pages.
Help her tell the stories
behind the photographs.
A few words in their own voice. Something your family can return to.
Begin with a free question