Guest Blog by Ben Newman

What a pleasure it is to find this website!  The concept of The Memoiry Journal is one that truly resonates with me.  My mother passed away just before my eighth birthday.  Many years after her death, my grandmother gave me a tremendous gift: my mother’s journal.  Reading it as an adult was a powerful experience for me.  While I always felt incredibly loved by my mother, I now had new insight into her courage, strength, and wisdom that set me on me on my path to success, even though she was only with me a short time.

“Our circumstances in life are much less significant than our responses to them, because it is not how long you live but how YOU choose to live your life.” 

This is one of the most important lessons I came to learn from my mother, Janet Fishman Newman. Read More