Staunton Press | Independent Publishing Imprint

How Far Back Can You Reach?

Do this bit of math with me. If a new grandchild has just arrived in your life, there’s roughly sixty years between the two of you. But you’re not limited to your own sixty years. You remember your grandparents. Maybe you even remember stories they told about their parents. Add that up, and you can reach back nearly a hundred years into a world that grandchild will never touch any other way.

She’ll never meet them. Never hear their voices, know what made them laugh. Unless you write it down, that hundred years disappears the day you do.

I built something to help with exactly this: REACH, a monthly memoir kit that sends one letter, one craft guide, and five prompts a month, so you can turn a single memory into something real, one page at a time. No pressure, no deadlines, just a page a month toward something your family will keep for generations.

There are three ways in, depending on what fits you:

• The full mailed kit (fine paper, a keepsake sticker, materials for your own memory box), 3, 6, or 12 months → [link]
• Email only, if you’d rather use your own paper and supplies, priced per month → [link]
• A one-time Welcome Kit, if you’d like to try it once before committing → [link] (Scroll to “Welcome kit”