Chasing Fireflies Podcasts

The Heritage2Legacy Project: Identifying and preserving your family memories.   Our next Heritage2Legacy short story calls out a favorite childhood book and an enchanting childhood experience. Lions and wardrobes and attics, next at Heritage2Legacy.com

The Heritage2Legacy Project: Identifying and preserving your family memories.   In this edition of our Heritage2Legacy cherished family stories series, we encourage you to think of a favorite teacher. This Heritage2Legacy short story calls out a favorite childhood teacher and one particular classroom skill she displayed that became one of our most important lessons learned. My First Favorite Teacher, next at Heritage2Legacy.com.     We hope you enjoy this edition of Chasing Fireflies: H2L.  Gil Moegerle

The Heritage2Legacy Project: Identifying and preserving your family memories.   In this edition of our Heritage2Legacy cherished family stories series, we encourage you to think of your family vacations. By today’s standards, my three siblings and I grew up in a strict, old-school, by-the-book family setting. And we loved it. Our parents were flexible about some things and not so much about others. That was one reason the authoritarian stuff never seemed to be a problem. An example of this flexibility we saw mixed in with the strickness? Our annual family vacation broke all the rules.     We hope you enjoy this edition of Chasing Fireflies: H2L.  Gil Moegerle

The Heritage2Legacy Project: Identifying and preserving your family memories.   In this edition of our Heritage2Legacy cherished family stories series, we encourage you to think of a baseball story.  Did you play baseball?  Did you go to baseball games; to spring training?  Who was your favorite team? Check out the page tab, Heritage2Legacy, on our website for all the information you need to join us in creating legacy stories for the next generation. FirefliesBlog.com

The Heritage2Legacy Project: Identifying and preserving your family memories.   In this edition of our Heritage2Legacy cherished family stories series, we encourage you to think of treasured family pets (real & unreal). Check out the page tab, Heritage2Legacy, on our website for all the information you need to join us in creating legacy stories for the next generation in your family. FirefliesBlog.com

The Heritage2Legacy Project: Identifying and preserving your family memories.   In this edition of our Heritage2Legacy cherished family stories series, we give you examples Christmas memories. Check out the page tab, Heritage2Legacy, on our website for all the information you need to join us in creating legacy stories for the next generation in your family. FirefliesBlog.com

The Heritage2Legacy Project: Identifying and preserving your family memories.   In this edition of our Heritage2Legacy cherished family stories series, we give you examples Christmas memories. Check out the page tab, Heritage2Legacy, on our website for all the information you need to join us in creating legacy stories for the next generation in your family. FirefliesBlog.com

We are calling these new tools Heritage2Legacy because stories are a way to influence future generations. Storytelling helps take the family heritage given to you, or which you began, and pushes that heritage forward toward legacy. We wanted to help make it easier for your family to create and preserve these favorite stories. Examples of our new H2L resources include a theme, a featured book prompt, and an example of a print and audio memory based on the theme and/or book. Simply write down or record one simple memory – a moment.  You can do it!

The Heritage2Legacy Project: Identifying and preserving your family memories.   In this edition of our Heritage2Legacy cherished family stories series, we give you examples of two stories your children and grandchildren will love to hear from you.  What was your parent's first job and what was yours? Check out the page tab, Heritage2Legacy, on our website for all the information you need to join us in creating legacy stories for the next generation in your family. FirefliesBlog.com

The Heritage2Legacy Project: Identifying and preserving your family memories.   For most of us, Thanksgiving is one of those special family legacy moments. And planning our next Thanksgiving is another example of how we all try to take the family heritage given us and try every year to push it forward toward family legacy. Our new Heritage2Legacy project provides you with ideas for capturing and preserving for generations to come these special family moments. Listen as Gil Moegerle attempts to capture for his grandchildren his childhood Thanksgiving.

The Heritage2Legacy Project: Identifying and preserving your family memories.   Have you ever spread homemade apple butter across a slice of bread just out of the oven on a brisk fall morning? Now that's an experience you can't buy at a store. Here is the story of an extended family tradition - coming together to make apple butter in granddad's basement.  

The Heritage2Legacy Project Identifying, Publishing, Preserving your family memories     Whether it means chasing fireflies on a summer evening, enjoying a fire in the fireplace, or sharing the porch swing and small talk with your grandparent, each of us has a vision of home.  Memories are what create our definition of home and those memories are what we desire to identify, publish, and preserve for the next generation.       In this post, Gil shares a memory from his childhood.  It involves his grandfather, a printing press, and a little magic.      Join us at FirefliesBlog.com this year as we prompt you to remember 10 moments from your past, package them with 10 delightful children’s books, and create a Legacy Gift for someone you love. Book:  Library Lion by Michelle Knudsen Tell a story about your local library, a favorite book, someone who read to you, anything having to do with books  - the printed word. CLICK HERE for the Love, Button Post 1/12

Imagine teenage girls becoming the best of friends in high school, then that special bond lasting 20 years. What difference can such friendships make when a young woman encounters life’s joys and heartbreaks?  This is part 2 of their story.

Do you remember the childhood song, "Make new friends but keep the old; one is silver and the other's gold"?   Listen to the story of six young girls becoming the best of friends in middle school, and then that special bond lasting 20 years.   You’ll hear part 1 of their story on this Chasing Fireflies Podcast.

The Fireflies team loves Humphrey the camel and his funny, meaningful Christmas book adventure. So we wanted you to meet his creator Carol Heyer, a leading children’s book author and illustrator. Carol introduces us to this wise men’s grumpy ride and then provides practical tips for spotting and nourishing creativity in our children.

What is it like to be twenty- or thirty-something and trying to build a lifelong marriage when your parents couldn’t? How does it feel to begin parenting when you have a broken relationship with your own parents? In this new Chasing Fireflies Podcast we talk about these challenging family issues with Mike Glenn, a Nashville pastor who specializes in helping Millennials build successful homes.

Listen to the return podcast visit of motion picture screenwriter Andrea Nasfell who talks about the sometimes surprising response to her family comedy about three stressed-out young mothers – Mom’s Night Out.

Talking to Our Children about Talking to God What is the best way to introduce our children to prayer? This year we plan to ask that question of several spiritual development specialists because passing along an exciting prayer life is one of a parent’s greatest contributions. The first of these conversations is ready for your listening enjoyment.   It features Mark Labberton, a husband, father and pastor who was recently named president of Fuller Theological Seminary. Listen as Mark explains how he and his wife raised two boys to view talking to God as a natural part of their day.  

It’s commencement season. Our children are taking the next step in their school experience. For some, that step is a big one…to first grade, or junior or senior high school or maybe even bigger…off to college. So we thought you might find it interesting to hear the head of a university talk about whether American children are prepared for college and independence. Dr. Sandy Gray is the president of Asbury University outside Lexington, KY. She spends her days around young people at that critical turning period from youth to adulthood. Listen to our newest podcast – Preparing Your Child to Launch – to hear Dr. Gray’s top tips for helping your child liftoff well.

Part two of our special conversation with the screenwriter of the Mother’s Day movie Mom’s Night Out  - Andrea Nasfell – is now available. This time we talk to this successful creative writer about how we spot creative potential in our children and what to do when we see it. At the end of the conversation we return to movie making as Andrea explains exactly how each of us can directly influence the types of motion pictures Hollywood produces.  Visit us at FirefliesBlog.com