I preserve your loved ones’ memories through easy, enjoyable interviews.

My Services Are Perfect for:

• Grandparents wanting to preserve life stories, reflections, and memories for their adult children and grandchildren. My grandfather gifted his memoir to me and my family, and it remains my most treasured possession and makes me deeply wish my other grandparents had written their memoirs for me too.

• New parents who are busy yet want to pause for an hour or two to reflect on the transition to becoming parent and raising a family, preserving memories that can be easily lost to the business, blur, and overwhelm of parenthood. This makes for a wonderful, thoughtful gift for your children when they are older or for a couple you love who is celebrating mother’s day, father’s day, or a child’s milestone birthday.

• Couples who are celebrating an engagement or anniversary. Perhaps you want to give your partner the gift of your memories and reflections on your journey as a couple, what you love the most about them, and your favorite moments together. Or perhaps your best friend just got engaged or is celebrating an anniversary and you want to gift them the opportunity to be interviewed for an hour or two to preserve their memories of the person they love.

• Retirees who want to pause and reflect for a few hours on their career, the major decisions they had to make, the challenges and highlights, and the people they met along the way. A perfect gift to commemorate retirement and help people look ahead to what’s next.

• Friends who want to document their memories of a best friend or friend group, how they met, the mischief they got into, and their favorite moments together. A beautiful, unique way to celebrate a friend’s birthday or simply an easy way to make sure that your memories of your friendships don’t fade with time.

Based in San Francisco, I work with individuals, friends, couples, parents, and families to record life stories through flexible interviews that are transformed into ready-to-print heirlooms that are treasured forever and only get better with age.

Whether you want to document your loved one’s memories to commemorate a specific milestone, like getting engaged, becoming a parent, or a big birthday, or you want your loved one to document a lifetime of stories, I make the process meaningful, human, and seamless.

Whose memories and milestones do you want to preserve?

Working With my First Client:

I worked with my first client, Louie, several years ago and over the course of ten or so interviews, we created his memoir, titled “Meet Me at the Greens”, focusing heavily on the friends he hung out with in school, the games they played, the legendary shenanigans they got into, and how he ended up in California from Long Island. I enjoyed and learned so much during this process and continue to work with new clients on creating their memoirs.

“I wanted to write a memoir because my children urged me to write down all the stories I told them over the years. Whenever I was together with my children and grandchildren telling stories, they wanted me to write a book. I told them stories of my teenage years growing up in New York with all my family and friends. I can’t say enough about Katlin. If it was not for all her help and expertise and dedication to writing, I would still be writing. I would recommend you get in touch with Katlin as she is a tremendous help in memoir writing.”

— Louie, client

I Make the Process Incredibly Easy

I’m on a mission to help your loved ones preserve life stories in a way that’s easy and energizing for them, enabling them to create a legacy that is treasured forever. While every project is unique, the process generally looks like this:

1. We have a 15-30 minute planning session, where we determine the type of service you’re interested in and the number of interviews that aligns with the type of memoir you want to create.

2. I create a list of questions tailored to your goals.

3. We do interviews, with each interview lasting anywhere from 45 to 90 minutes. Some projects require just one interview while others require eight or more.

4. After interviews, I transcribe, edit, and organize your memoir content so that it is clear, engaging, and ready to be printed.

5. Print your memoir booklet or book and gift it to loved ones to treasure forever.

There are so many apps out there to record people’s stories. Why work with me?

I find that that apps used for recording memories via computers, phones, and journals can feel impersonal and hardly motivating, requiring loved ones to share memories alone by answering rigid prompts. What I offer is a much more meaningful and efficient experience. Here’s why:

• it’s easier to record stories through interviews with a human than having your loved one toiling away on their own in front of a computer, phone, or a journal. Interviews feel like organic conversations rather than like computer homework.

• it’s faster to do interviews (whether we do one or a dozen interviews) compared to having to remember to sit down each week to record stories with an app or computer for a number of months or years and risk never even starting or finishing it.

• the opportunities to recover forgotten memories increases during interviews as I ask follow-up questions or go on interesting tangents during interviews.

• your loved one has someone reflecting back to them the amazing experiences and interesting, poignant reflections they’ve shared; an app can’t do that in any meaningful way.