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"My mom worked on coding in the Women's Army...or as she corrected me, the Army." He chuckled at the memory. Me: Oh that's so exciting! Did you save anything of hers from that time? Him: I saved an interesting book of Japanese writing. You know, she needed to...

So you know you want to save your legacy...  But where? One of my clients had a VERY clear idea about that. Someone had been courting my client to leave all of her meeting notes, newspaper clippings, photos, correspondence, and ephemera with *them* at their...

As women, we  mostly have been raised in cultures that valued modesty and humility, and discouraged pride and self-celebration. For women.

So most women shy away from feeling “worthy” of being included in history and placing the evidence of their lives in archives.

Originally published by BORN TO RISE. Based on a family camping trip photo, a state endangered species committee tracked the shrinking presence of a local plant and moved it onto the endangered species list to protect it from extinction. Many family photos do have dramatic stories wrapped up in them. But the only way to capture, tell, and act on historic visual information is to save our photos…and preserve them.