About Me

Hi, I’m Janet. This is my blog to share family history, memories of the decades I’ve lived through, travel experiences, and to encourage others in writing and sharing their own family history for future generations.

I’m a writer, book editor, blog editor, and writing coach with a passion for family history and life stories. I help my clients write their memoir, life story, family history, or legacy as a blog or book.

More than anything, I want to make available for future generations the kind of daily life details I wish I had from those who came before us.

I hope you will be inspired in some way by what you find here. Thank you for visiting!

If you’re writing your book or family story, you’ll find helpful hints at my book coaching and editing website.

A grand adventure! Miami, FL 1969, first flight to visit my sister in South Carolina, courtesy of Eastern Airlines, where my dad, William Gillis, Jr. worked. Pretty sure my mom, Joy Washburn Gillis made that outfit too. She was a talented seamstress.