Capturing your family’s story

I was not someone who was inclined to ask a lot of questions about my parents’ lives, nor that of my grandparents. I knew bits and pieces and this seemed enough. However, on reading through a copy of my paternal Grandfather’s life story which he had penned in his own hand-writing, I felt a connection…

Michelle Obama in her recent biography “Becoming” talks about the importance of knowing her story. She writes of her parents: “Together they helped me see the value in our story, in my story, in the larger story of our country. Even when it is not pretty or perfect and when it’s more real than you…