Legacy Writing

Capture the memories.

Create a legacy.

Elder Legacy Writing

Imagine capturing your family stories and creating a beautiful legacy.

We're proud to partner with The Terrace at Courtenay Springs to offer residents and their families weekly writing sessions in a small group setting with supplies, camaraderie, and snacks beginning in May 2024. 

for residents and their families

After her mother's sudden death in 2021 and her grandmother's death in hospice in March 2023, Robin Le Roy-Kyle began thinking about how she could use her writing background to help other families working through the grief journey that comes with aging, memory loss, denial, sadness, hospice, and death.

Learn more about this program in a short video coming soon. 

For years, our founder, Robin,  sat with her grandmother as her grandmother's memory dimmed. Though she no longer knew who the young woman was, she joyfully shared her stories with "the woman that reminded her of her granddaughter, Robin."

The conversations were difficult, leaving Robin feeling sad and overwhelmed at not being able to communicate with this woman whom she had spent 50+ years laughing, shopping, eating with, and learning from. Her grandmother was her 'second mom.' 

Robin often thought her "Gran" didn't understand what she was saying or just couldn't respond. At the suggestion of an astute assisted living employee, two simple tools were added to the conversations: a notebook and a purple marker. Game changer! They became the tools for conversations that would become lasting memories.

Then, in hospice a few months shy of her grandmother's 99th birthday, our founder watched life quietly slip away. She wrote letters through tears to her grandmother.

The Purple Marker Project

for memory care residents and their families

For years, our founder, Robin,  sat with her grandmother as her grandmother's memory dimmed. Though she no longer knew who the young woman was, she joyfully shared her stories with "the woman that reminded her of her granddaughter, Robin."

The conversations were difficult, leaving Robin feeling sad and overwhelmed at not being able to communicate with this woman whom she had spent 50+ years laughing, shopping, eating with, and learning from. Her grandmother was her 'second mom.' 

Robin often thought her "Gran" didn't understand what she was saying or just couldn't respond. At the suggestion of an astute assisted living employee, two simple tools were added to the conversations: a notebook and a purple marker. Game changer! They became the tools for conversations that would become lasting memories.

Then, in hospice a few months shy of her grandmother's 99th birthday, our founder watched life quietly slip away. She wrote letters through tears to her grandmother.

After her grandmother's death, she began thinking about how she could help other families working through the grief journey that comes with aging, memory loss, hospice, and death.  

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for families living with dementia and Alzher...

Word by word, let's tell your family's stories and preserve your legacies.