Memoir or Legacy Portfolio?

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Memoir: your stories told in your own voice.  A memoir may be written, spoken as an audio CD, or a video record.

A memoir can be about anything in your life, significant events, projects, people, hobbies, travel. You may choose to write your whole life story or some important part of it. What you choose to write about is up to you. A memoir also varies in length, again, that's up to you. If you say what you want to say in 30 pages, that's fine. If it takes you 250 pages to get everything you want into your memoir, that's also fine.

Legacy Portfolio: a comprehensive collection of documents, memorabilia, anecdotes and stories of a life.

A Legacy Portfolio is a good first step toward creating a written, audio or video memoir. The Legacy Portfolio can be paper or electronic, depending on your preferences.  A Legacy Portfolio can also be a scrapbook, including stories or short blurbs of the photographs and documents you include.