Have you ever found yourself saying, I would like to write about my life but I don’t know where to start or what it say?

For those of you who don't have the time or confidence to write your own story, I'm here to help. It will take a commitment from you, but I'll do the hard work of writing, editing and any related research.

Here's how the process works. I visit with you face to face, by telephone or e-mail and then work with you to create a narrative of your life told either from a first person point of view or from a third person narrative. It's your choice. To read samples of my work and to differentiate between first and third person, click on sample stories in the lefthand bar.

Through a series of questions that help bring forth fond memories of the past, I will help you recall your life in as much detail as possible. If you like, I will research historical periods to lend authenticity or background information to your story and can call relatives and friends who could talk about your background and reveal forgotten anecdotes. To learn more about how I could put your story into historical context, click on appendix options at the left.

Once you have approved the written text, I will compile the narrative with scanned photos and have the material bound. I offer an option to have the finished product copied onto a CD.

Consider hiring Gemstone Memoir services as a gift for:

• Children
• Mom or Dad
• Grandparents
• A spouse
• Aunts, uncles, cousins
• Friends, co-workers

Personal stories may also be used to capture special occasions or events such as:

• Anniversaries and weddings
• Birthdays
• Adoptions or births
• Holidays
• Graduations
• Family reunions
• Retirement parties

Remember a loved one who has passed on with a memorial tribute told through the memories of surviving family members and friends.

Mission Statement

As your personal narrator, my goal is to help you remember past events as clearly as possible and to provide the guidance you need to record your life history, whether the story is a three page life summary or detailed chapters of text. I am committed to working with you to produce an affordable custom-made memoir your family will treasure for generations to come.

"There is history in all men's lives."

William Shakespear

"History, although sometimes made up of the few acts of the great, is more often shaped by the many acts of the small."


Mark Yost

"A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We collect into a small bunch the flowers, the few flowers, which brought sweetness into a life, and present it as an offering to an accomplished destiny. It is the dying refrain of a completed song, the final verse of a finished poem."

Andre Maurois, French Biographer