TELLING YOUR STORY! part 1

       The following is the interview of yours truly which appeared this week in the Iowa County Journal Tribune and written by Brian Rathjen, managing editor.

TELLING YOUR STORY-Williamsburg resident publishes his blog in book form for sharing with future generations. Brian Rathjen NPIC managing editor.

      Everyone has a good story to tell about themselves. Someday your descendants might be interested in what went on when you were younger, or what the world was like in that great year of 20152014, 2013....
      Doesn't matter if it's an old song you heard on a classic repeat of "American Top 40," to throwing your arm out while throwing hay bales to horses on the farm, to the enthusiasm shown by members of the local dance team.
       Today can be looked upon as "the good old days" 20,30, 40 years from now. That's what Williamsburg resident and blogger Dennis Laverty suggests--writing your personal story, sharing stories about your family and so forth.
      "The spins we write about today a grandkid or great-grandkid can read someday...and(the current time)can be the good ol' days," said Laverty. He should know. He's maintained his own blog for the past number of years, and has collected those writings and published them in book form.
      Everything is there-from the people he met on the Hawkeye Express train at Kinnick Stadium to describing the atmosphere of a small-town eatery he and other friends visited, to the food booths operated by the Mennonites at auction in Kalona.
       Those writings can also be found on his online blog, Dennis Now and Ago. Found at dennisnowandago.blogspot.com, the entries about 800 of them  from 2014 and 2015 are posted- contain everything from short observations to longer stories. "I started writing, when I say short stories, vignettes---none of my stories are probably longer than just a few pages (and) some are two or three paragraphs," he said of his hobby, which he says he began in 2007.

----------------------to be continued.