1. One good question at a time
We send the questions, one by one — the house you grew up in, the work, the war, the wedding, the days everything changed.
The Telling Room
Every life has a story in it. This is the room where yours gets told — in your own voice, in your own words — and made into a keepsake your family can keep.
How it works
2. You just talk
Answer on your phone, a few minutes at a time. No writing it all down, no typing. Talking is enough.
3. We shape it in your own words
Your way of saying things stays yours — nothing polished away. It will sound like you, because it is you.
4. It comes back finished
A recording the whole family can gather round and hear together — and a bound book, made at The Holland Press, with your name on it.
Start with Geneva
Geneva Holland wrote down her whole life, plain as she lived it. Her memoir — And All the Days Were Bright — is finished and free to hear at The Holland Press: nine episodes, her own words from first to last. The voice reading them is a reader’s voice, not Geneva’s own — but every word is hers.
That is what a finished life sounds like. Yours can sound like you.
Hear Geneva at The Holland Press →
For sons and daughters
Give your mother the questions. We’ll do the rest.
If your mother or father has stories the family keeps asking for, this is how they get kept — told once, in their own voice, and handed down instead of lost.
Raise your hand
The Telling Room is new, and the list is forming. Leave your name and whose story it is, and we’ll write back.