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Me by Me: Timeline

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Swap Coordinator:druideye (contact)
Swap categories: Challenges  Letters & Writing  Journals 
Number of people in swap:8
Location:International
Type:Type 1: Electronic
Last day to signup/drop:September 19, 2009
Date items must be sent by:October 3, 2009
Number of swap partners:4
Description:

This is the next swap in a series of swaps that I am going to do that will be an impetus for us to write about ourselves for posterity - our memoir. Everyone has those stories and things that get passed down generation to generation, and when this is through you'll have collected information for your own little "Me by Me" autobiography of sorts while sharing your story with other friendly swappers!

This is an email swap that takes a little bit of work.

You are to compile a timeline of your life - childhood...teen years...young adult...middle age...senior years. Mark pivotal points in the timeline, things that you remember that changed your life in one way or another.

Newbies welcome with a filled out profile, otherwise at least a 4.8 - please PM me about recent 1's or 3's. DO NOT sign up if you are going to flake as this is EMAIL - not hard to send at all.

Just for an example, here's a bit of a fake timeline:

  • December 29, 1954 - Born only daughter to a sharecropper's family in Georgia.
  • 1971 - Graduated from high school in Florida.
  • April 29, 1975 - Married my first husband and moved to Germany.
  • June 15, 1976 - My first son Michael was born.
  • August 1979 - Moved to Charleston, South Carolina. -etc etc...

IDEA: You could start a "Me by Me" journal and print out your answers after each swap, and start collecting them so that at the end you'll have a great little book of memories to share with your family and/or friends about YOU!

Discussion

Serenity 09/ 6/2009 #

What a WONDERFUL idea.

Darkestlina 09/ 6/2009 #

I am totally in on this. Just wondering though. About how many items on this timeline? I mean like how detailed?

druideye 09/10/2009 #

I would say 10 items at the least, but feel free to do more than that and make it as detailed as you want it to be.

amymc 09/11/2009 #

In case anyone wants to make this fancier, there are a whole bunch of sites that have timeline creators. You just enter the dates and information. Here's a site with more info: http://www.squidoo.com/how-to-make-a-timeline

DarbyFlats 09/18/2009 #

Hi. Can you please check my profile and let me know if it is "filled out" enough for me to join? If it's not, please give me instructions on what to do.

Thanks! Michelle

druideye 09/20/2009 #

It's fine! I'm about to assign partners.

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