Roey Gran

Roey Gran is part of the team building Glow, your family's living story in one private place. Roey writes about capturing family stories while they're being lived and while they can still be told: a child's first words, the questions worth asking a grandparent, and how a family tells a life story together.

Articles by Roey Gran

• What to Record Before It's Gone: The Sounds of a Grandparent's Life — Stories matter, but so do the sounds around them: the laugh, the songs, the blessing, how they say your name. A checklist of what to record, and how.
• Bedtime Stories From Your Own Childhood: How to Start — Pick one small, true moment from when you were their age, tell it in three parts with a funny or scary middle, and keep it under five minutes. Repeat favourites.
• Writing Your Own Life Story When You Don't Think You're a Writer — Don't write a book. Write one small scene at a time, the way you'd tell it at the table, or say it out loud first and tidy it later. Order comes at the end.
• Messages for Later: Recording Words for a Grandchild's Future Milestones — How grandparents can record short messages for a grandchild's first day of school, a bar mitzvah, graduation or wedding, and how to keep them safe until then.
• How to Record a Life Story: A Step-by-Step Guide for Families — Plan a few short sessions by life chapter, record on a phone with photos as prompts, label everything, then shape the transcripts into a story in their words.
• How to Tell Your Kids Where Your Family Comes From — Start with food, objects and places your kids can touch, tell one ancestor's story at a time, and let the questions lead. Here's how, age by age.
• How to Preserve a Grandparent's Voice, With Their Consent — Ask first, then record real conversations on a phone in a quiet room, label every file, keep copies in two places and let your grandparent decide who hears it.
• What I Was Like at Your Age: Childhood Stories to Tell Your Kids — Tell the small, specific stories: the time you got in trouble, your first pet, what scared you, what you ate. Kids want the real you at their age, not a lesson.
• 50 Questions for a Life-Story Interview With a Parent or Grandparent — Fifty open questions, grouped from earliest memories to life lessons, plus how to run the interview, record it and keep the stories in their own words.
• Raising Healthy Kids — Children who know their family's story tend to be more confident and less anxious. Here is why it matters, how to make family stories part of everyday life, and how to gather the photos and voices that carry them.
• The First Weeks After a Parent Dies: What Needs to Happen Now, and What Can Wait — A practical, permission-giving guide to the first weeks after a parent dies - what genuinely needs to happen now, what can safely wait, and how to keep yourself standing while you do it.
• How to Write a Eulogy When You Don't Know Where to Start — A practical guide to writing a eulogy when you don't know where to start - one honest story, a simple shape, and small steps you can take today.
• 60 Questions to Ask Your Parents While You Still Can — Sixty questions to ask your parents while you still can - organized by theme, with tips on recording the conversation and keeping what you capture.