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What if you could ask your great-grandfather about his life? It's more possible than you think. I used AI to "interview" my family's past. đ
My new Medium article explores how AI is revolutionizing genealogy, from restoring old photos to simulating conversations with our ancestors. It's one of the most human applications of tech I've ever experienced.
Read the story here (Friend Link for free access!):
https://medium.com/@patryktomkowski/i-used-ai-to-interview-my-grandfathers-ghost-how-technology-is-unlocking-our-family-histories-0428190f6b20?sk=1ae684478793f5337cdf840f0b12a885
#AI #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #TechForGood #Innovation #Storytelling #History #ArtificialIntelligence #PersonalEssay #WritingCommunity
Today at Longreads, Caylin Capra-Thomas writes about Sublime and the sublime, Bradley Nowell and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, addiction and loss and recovery, what we yearn for and what limits we touch https://longreads.com/2025/05/22/sublime-nowell-coleridge-addiction/
I didnât lose my parents to age or illness. I lost them to politics.
No funeral. No goodbye. Just silence and distance.
This is a personal story about what that kind of loss feels like.
đ https://thewanderer.io/2025/05/05/the-day-i-lost-my-parents/
#FamilyEstrangement #Grief #PoliticsAndFamily #PersonalEssay #TheWanderer
I didnât get lost in D.C. because I took a wrong turn. I got lost because I couldnât face what was waiting back home.
Grief has a way of turning cities into mazes. This is a story about walking, memory, and the quiet relief of not being found.
âïž Read: https://thewanderer.io/2025/03/15/lost-in-dc/
#TheWanderer #LostInDC #GriefWriting #PlaceAndMemory #WanderingSoul #PersonalEssay #Mastodon
Writing About Your Life Forces You to Face It
How being more self-aware in your stories makes readers pay attention Continue reading on The Writing Cooperative »
https://writingcooperative.com/writing-about-your-life-forces-you-to-face-it-0aaaafa3f96
#storytelling #personalessay #writing #writinglife #nonfiction
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"Our plan was to drive across the country, living off the grid as much as possible, with the goal of finding ourselves. How we would accomplish thisâor even what it meantâneither of us was entirely sure." âJames Wade for Texas Highways Magazine
https://texashighways.com/culture/essays/a-traveler-embraces-change-in-big-bend/
Ground Zero: Writerâs Digest 5th Annual Personal Essay Awards Winner
Ground Zero by F.A. Battle I had an uncle who used to say that if the world ended while he was alive, he wanted to be at the heart of...
https://www.writersdigest.com/ground-zero-writers-digest-5th-annual-personal-essay-awards-winner
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Ground Zero: Writerâs Digest 5th Annual Personal Essay Awards Winner https://www.writersdigest.com/ground-zero-writers-digest-5th-annual-personal-essay-awards-winner #PersonalEssayCompetition #competitions/contests #WDCompetitionWinners #PersonalEssayAwards #CompetitionWinners #WDCompetitions #PersonalEssay #competitions
Announcing the 5th Annual Personal Essay Awards Winners
Congratulations to the winners of the 5th annual Writer's Digest Personal Essay Awards!
The post Announcing the 5th Annual Personal Essay Awards Winners appeared first on Writer's Digest.
https://www.writersdigest.com/5th-annual-personal-essay-awards-winners
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Announcing the 5th Annual Personal Essay Awards Winners https://www.writersdigest.com/5th-annual-personal-essay-awards-winners #PersonalEssayCompetition #WriteBetterNonfiction #PersonalEssayAwards #CompetitionWinners #PersonalWriting #FromtheWinners #PersonalEssays #WDCompetitions #FromTheWinners #PersonalEssay #competitions
"I didnât know the term 'obsessive-compulsive' then, but I certainly knew I was doing something deranged and embarrassing, so I tried to avoid being caught at my work. If I crept back to bed quietly enough, I wouldnât have to explain to my parents the urgency of my nightly patrol, the necessity of gathering my temporary facts, the final ritual of reciting them to myself in the dark." âMiriam Fried for The Rumpus
"She tends to the structure, repairing damage, devoting energy to producing both the silk and the pattern for her web. In turn, the web feeds her."
Personal War Responsibility and Historical View as a Junior Baby
Boomer Generation
https://trgr-lab.com/personal-war-responsibility-japan/
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#PalestinianEducation
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Personal War Responsibility and Historical View as a Junior Baby
Boomer Generation
https://trgr-lab.com/personal-war-responsibility-japan/
#HistoricalResponsibility
#PostWarJapan
#EthicsAndFaith
#PalestinianEducation
#PersonalEssay
I enjoyed this hybrid piece about ghosts. It's a short and fascinating read. https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2021/09/16/all-you-have-to-do-is-die/ #GhostStories #ShortStory #PersonalEssay #HybridWriting #ghosts
Personal Essay. Expore nature, growth, and resilience in this essay by oris von Tettenborn
#writing #personalessay #gardening #recovery
https://www.recipesandroots.ca/roots/bloombybloom
Personal Essay: Excerpt from âA Parallel Universe: A Quirky Memoir of Growing Up in 1960s New Zealandâ
Enjoy this piece by author Cheryl Nichols as she brings us to her childhood in mid-century New Zealand.
Personal Essay: Gramma Cookies, Midnight TV, and the Case of the Missing Crabapples.
Join writer Shara as she looks back at her childhood and what it means to have present grandparents.
#writing #personalessay#grandparents #alberta #childhood
https://www.recipesandroots.ca/roots/the-missing-crabapples
"You are translating another funeral scene. There is sadness, yes, but there is also merriment, storytelling, music, and a kinetic energy that leaves the mourners rapt by the wonderment of life and the soulâs transition from this realm to the next." Nathan H. Dize for Words Without Borders
https://longreads.com/2025/01/16/translators-notes/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social