Your memories are important. Everyone’s are. Both eventful and seemingly uneventful lives are filled with special moments—tender, humorous, sad, frightening, uplifting—which, taken together, form a tapestry of an individual’s existence. It is these memories, these moments that SML Publishing would like to capture in print. Our hope is that both narrators and their families receive the benefits that come from completing such a project.

For storytellers, the process brings into focus many factors such as events, actions, decisions and values. Often, new understandings come as well when certain threads in the pattern begin to stand out.

For narrators’ families and friends, such books are treasured connections not only to the past but to the present and the future as well. Just as you would have appreciated messages from the past, from your parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, so will your descendants appreciate reading about what you choose to share with them. These communications are your most enduring and meaningful legacy.