Stories of a Life
"In the end, we'll all become stories." (Margaret Atwood)
Document the stories of your life through your photos and words.
-- Do you want to collect and preserve the life stories from your loved ones or record your own story for future generations?
-- Do you have boxes of photos and memorabilia but haven't recorded the stories that go with them?
-- Do you want your photos and stories organized and beautifully preserved so they can tell the story of your life to future generations?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, I am here to help you. We can work together, or I can coach you to do the work yourself. Through a variety of services, we can create a beautifully organized story of your life and the lives of those you love,
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We are all storytellers, We live in a network of stories. There isn't a stronger connection between people than storytelling.
(Jimmy Neil Smith)
Our lives are made up of stories. We tell these stories through the photos we take, the memorabilia we collect, the words we write, and the memories we collect in our minds. Through these stories, we can see who we are, what was important to us, and where we came from. We can see what we value most. But too often, these stories are not organized until we are gone, and then by someone in our family rather than us telling our own story.
Your story may be located in boxes of photos, hundreds of digital photos that you can't even bear to sort through anymore, or thoughts that you dumped together with plans to revisit them in years to come.
Let's work together to get your photos and your memories brought together and organized for yourself, for your children, and for the next generations. Let's work together to preserve your story. Because your story matters.
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Past Clients
In 2024-25 I met by phone with Kim as we worked together for a year or so while I worked to publish my book, “You Make A Big Good” about my Alzheimer’s journey with my husband, Jim. Kim is knowledgeable, kind, supportive and ever-so-patient with suggestions to try, or not, which I appreciated as a first time author. I trust Kim and I recommend her whole-heartedly. --Mary Todd
One of the key elements in telling my story in my memoir -ROYAL ROOTS: REIMAGINING A LIFE THROUGH HUMOR, A CASTLE, AND THE US NAVY- was the photos. There are 169 of them. As though I waved a magic wand, in came Kim. Kim Kiehl expertly handled, scanned, and enhanced these photos so that my tale of growing up with a WWII Navy Vet Dad with severe PTSD could be told with not just accuracy, but also with warmth, compassion, and understanding. Mine was a difficult story to express as it dealt with tragedy and yet also with humor. Kim’s patience and expertise helped bring the photos into literal focus and she became an essential contributing member of our book team. I could not have done it without her.
--Pat Wynn Brown
I asked Kim at Stories of a Life to compile a scrapbook of my husband's 29 years in Law Enforcement as a retirement gift for him. She did a wonderful job including photos from his graduation from the academy, to awards and citations he had received throughout his career. The letters from families of people he had helped and thank you notes from the children he often spent time with as part of his Community Policing duties helped describe the type of officer he was and human being he is. Kim Kiehl is a true artist...she takes her time to really get to know the person she is creating for. The end is a beautiful "documentary in book form" of the person. She has a true passion for her work and it comes through in the end product.
-- Shari Koval
