Your Best Day at the Beach & How to Capture It

Days at the beach aren't for everyone (the Legacy Lady included), but for the people who enjoy a day at the beach, we are so glad you get to experience it! Capturing the stories of your best day at the beach can be as simple as answering the prompts below. Caring for someone and helping them tell their stories? The prompts work for that, too.

Prompts for Writing about Your Beach Memories

These are the prompts for writing your story about your beach memories.

Most Memorable Beach Moment or Day at the Beach

Text version of the prompts above originally used for LegacyChat, which was hosted on Twitter (X) in another lifetime. This chat may get resuscitated on Threads 💀🤣

Feel free to share your answers to the questions moments or keep them to yourself 🙂

Looking for a hands-on experience to really get your story going? This is for you.

Summer Story Journal

This Summer Story Journal is a printable that can be purchased and downloaded. From there, you can use it as a PDF import into a tablet, or it can be printed on paper.

My Day at the Beach

Growing up in Arizona, there wasn't a lot of beach front property running around. However, my parents were pretty adventurous people. They made sure my brother and I got to wiggle our toes in the sand of more than a few beaches, all over the world. On the IGTV episode, I mentioned that I wandered off and got lost a couple of times at the beach. Once in Mexico and once in California. Both times, understandably, were harrowing for my parents. Having kids now, I totally get how they felt. Thanks for not throttling me 🙂

-Gael

StoryTweets from Twitter

#legacychat A1-A5 Lol, no memory too young but only pic on beach if lake beaches count. Pic from ‘54 at Burr Oak state pk, Ohio. Dad’s b-day ( who must have taken pic) with mom who could not swim & terrified of water. Wading at mom’s deepest depth, lol. pic.twitter.com/z95PxdCb0p

— Charles C Andrews (@CharlesC1976) July 24, 2018

A8. Bermuda is perfect and a wonderful place to bring your family. Horseshoe Bay is the most magical beach I've ever encountered and everyone should visit. #LegacyChat #beachmoment #beach

— My Family Genie (@MyFamilyGenie) July 24, 2018

You can check out more family stories from @MyFamilyGenie on her website here 🙂

Huge shout-out to the people who showed up every week to write with me! Thank you!

What now?

Looking for that thing to help you keep your storytellers engaged and talking? For the writers in your care, this journal will keep them talking for a good long while. Encourage them (if they can) to reach out via phone or video to family members and share the memories they write about.

This journal was designed for storytellers in their sunset years who are ready to write about and share their memories. Simple to use and elegant enough to keep around to remind you of them long after they are gone.