Generation Gap: Building Bridges with Stories

Meghan Vigeant September 27, 2016

For a long time when I thought of my grandma, unfortunately, I often thought, “She’s such a racist.” So many of my memories of her go something like this....

A Couple of Old Souls

Meghan Vigeant February 8, 2016

“I was a little apprehensive about the whole thing, because I didn’t know him for beans. But Bob brought along a toy billy club and toy handcuffs, so if he got out of control I could straighten him out. That just made me laugh."

Lost in the Junk Drawer and other Rookie Mistakes

Meghan Vigeant January 22, 2016

Eleven years ago I conducted my first personal history interview. I’m sorry to say the recording is gone, lost to history. Only the fragments of my memories remain. I was a wannabe radio producer and desperate to join the cool kids at This American Life. To gain interviewing experience I asked a nun named Sister Beth...

Memoir with a Mission

Meghan Vigeant May 2, 2014

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about how the process of writing or telling our personal stories helps us to uncover the meaning and purpose in our lives. I don’t expect to answer the great mystery of existence with just these simple questions...

Too Young for History

Meghan Vigeant November 22, 2013

History isn’t just for grandparents and college professors. History is for all generations. Stories about the past have the power to connect us no matter what our age is, or how long ago a story happened.

For a long time when I thought of my grandma, unfortunately, I often thought, “She’s such a racist.” So many of my memories of her go something like this....

Meghan Vigeant

writer. audio producer. educator.