Birthing a New Era
Vivian Josephine Lamke in the 40s Maybe I've mentioned it before, but I've been working on compiling my Grandmother's memoir for quite some time now. It all began in April 2018, after a visit to her apartment on the South side of La Crosse. Around this same time I had increased my focus on reconnecting with my spiritual side and so as I left her apartment on my drive back to Illinois, I recognized receiving a download. A download to me is a clear, concise message that just drops into my head. I can't even tell you anything about the visit with my grandma that day or if we talked about her memoirs. But driving through the farmlands of Western Wisconsin, I had a clear message "You should write her stories." At the time I was working as a Marketing Manager for a resort and although I wrote a lot of content, I didn't necessarily consider myself a writer. I definitely hadn't been thinking about writing a book. But looking back, I guess I was always a write