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Apr.14.2013
I am the second of four children, first two boys and then two girls. I have always liked this combination, because then each of us gets at least one brother and one sister. Thanks, Mom and Dad!
Not too long ago, my brother, sisters, and I were thinking about what to give our mother for...
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Dec.13.2012
She’s a blazing star in every sense of the word. At 43, Sheryl Sandberg’s life story reads like a bestselling novel. Now that Sheryl joined the billionaires’ club when Facebook went public earlier this year, what will her future bring?
Timeline, Facebook’s life story feature, received a lot of...
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Nov.13.2012
My wife Kate and I are happy to report that our newest book, My Life Map: A Journal to Help You Shape Your Future (published by Gotham Books, a Penguin imprint – soon to be Penguin Random House) hit the stores nationwide this week. It’s on the shelves at Barnes and Noble and also available on...
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Nov.17.2009
This is a great article from the Wall Street Journal called “Story Time: The Heck with looking foward. There’s value in looking back.” It is about the wisdom of telling stories from the past to younger family members as “a deft way to transmit lessons about life while strengthening generational...
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Jul.30.2009
My wife Kate Marshall, who is more prolific on Red Room than I, mentioned recently that one of her Red Room friends was interested in submitting a book proposal to my day-job employer: Berrett-Koehler Publishers in San Francisco (I'm the Director for Digital Communities in the editorial department...
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May.31.2009
Since it's almost Father's Day, I will answer this question from my DIY autobiography book. If I had any trouble with my father while I was young it was in this area: My dad was a Methodist minister with an unbelievable passion to save the world in the 1960s in the era of John F. Kennedy and...
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Mar.18.2009
Today was the pub date for our new guided journal, The Picture of Me: Who I Am in 221 Questions, by Kate and David Marshall (Hardcover, $13.95, Broadway Books). The big news is that Scribd, the "YouTube of Documents" web publishing company with over 50 million online visitors a month,...
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Mar.12.2009
Sue Shellenbarger wrote a great article (Work & Family column in the Wall Street Journal) today about the value of family story telling between generations. Here's an excerpt: "As parents cut budgets, many are finding family stories have surprising power to help children through hard...
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Feb.16.2009
I just finished reading The Five Love Languages, the best-selling classic by Gary Chapman. and highly recommend it for couples seeking to deepen their love and communication. The five love languages are:
Words of Affirmation
Quality Time
Receiving Gifts
Acts of Service
Physical Touch
The...
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Feb.09.2009
The Contra Costa Times published an article today that combines concepts from three of our books The Book of Myself, What I Love About You, and our new book, Picture of Me, just in time for Valentine's Day:
Readers Pen Six-Word Memoirs About Love...
Of course the most famous six-word memoir is...
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Feb.05.2009
My wife Kate and I are co-authors of a number of best-selling family journals such as What I Love About You and The Book of Us: Your Love Story in 201 Questions. I also co-authored The Book of Myself with my grandfather before he died. It is a do-it-yourself autobiography to help share your...
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About David
The Marshalls’ best-selling journals (over 750,000 copies sold) help you record your personal stories about your life, love, beliefs and experiences. Drawing on their passion for family, relationships and empowering others in self-expression, the Marshalls...
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