The wrapping paper will be recycled by New Year's. The sweaters will fade. The gadgets will become obsolete. But there's one gift you can give this Christmas that will be treasured for generations—your story.
Picture this: It's Christmas morning. The house smells like cinnamon and pine. Your grandchildren are tearing through presents, their laughter echoing off the walls. In twenty years, they won't remember what was in most of those boxes.
But they'll remember you.
They'll remember the way you told stories by the fire. The sound of your voice when you described meeting their grandmother for the first time. The tears in your eyes when you talked about coming to this country with nothing but hope in your pockets.
The question is: Will those memories survive when you're no longer here to tell them?
The Truth About Family Memories
Here's something that keeps me up at night: Every single day, 10,000 baby boomers retire. That's 10,000 people with lifetimes of wisdom, love stories, hardships overcome, and lessons learned.
And most of those stories will never be written down.
They'll exist only in the minds of the people who lived them—until one day, they won't exist at all.
I think about my own grandmother. She passed away seven years ago, and I would give anything—anything—to hear her voice again. To know what she was thinking when she left her village in Poland. To understand what gave her the courage to start over in a country where she didn't speak the language.
I have a few faded photographs. A recipe card in her handwriting. But her stories? Gone forever.
This Christmas, Give Something That Matters
Look, I'm not here to tell you that the Nintendo Switch your grandson wants isn't a great gift. It is. He'll love it.
But I am here to suggest that maybe—just maybe—there's something you can give that will matter even more.
Your story.
Not the polished, perfect version. The real one. The messy, beautiful, complicated truth of your life.
What Your Family Actually Wants to Know
When we surveyed families about what they wished they knew about their parents and grandparents, the answers weren't about achievements or possessions. They wanted to know:
• What was your childhood really like? The daily details, the friends, the fears.
• How did you meet the love of your life? The real story, not the sanitized version.
• What were you afraid of? And how did you find courage anyway?
• What do you wish you'd known at my age? The wisdom that only comes from living.
• What moments define who you are? The turning points, the choices, the regrets.
These aren't questions that get answered over Christmas dinner. They're too big, too intimate, too real for casual conversation.
But they're exactly the questions that LifeScribe helps you answer.
Why This Christmas Is Different
As I write this, I'm watching snow fall outside my window. There's something about the holidays that makes us reflective, isn't there? We gather with family. We remember loved ones who are no longer with us. We feel the weight of time passing.
This year, that feeling might be stronger than ever.
Maybe you lost someone recently. Maybe there are empty chairs at your table this Christmas. Maybe you're suddenly aware that the people you love won't be here forever—and neither will you.
That awareness isn't morbid. It's precious.
It's the thing that can finally push you to do what you've been putting off: preserving your story for the people who will carry it forward.
— Michael Margolis
How LifeScribe Makes It Easy
I know what you're thinking. "I'm not a writer. I wouldn't know where to start. It would take forever."
Here's the truth: If you can talk, you can create your legacy.
LifeScribe was designed specifically for people who have stories to tell but don't consider themselves writers. Here's how it works:
Step 1: Just Talk
Open the app, press record, and start talking. Tell us about your first car. Your wedding day. The time you got lost in a foreign city. Whatever memory comes to mind.
Step 2: We Transform It
Our AI takes your words and transforms them into a beautifully written chapter. You choose the style—maybe something warm and conversational, or perhaps more literary. It still sounds like you, just polished.
Step 3: Add to Your Life Book
Each memory becomes a chapter in your personal Life Book. Over time, you build a complete narrative of your life—one story at a time.
Step 4: Share With Those Who Matter
Keep it private, share it with family, or print it as a physical book. It's your story, your choice.
A Christmas Gift for Yourself (And Everyone You Love)
Here's what I want you to imagine:
Next Christmas, instead of another forgettable gift, you hand your daughter a beautiful book. Inside are your stories—the ones she's heard fragments of over the years, finally complete. The ones she never knew to ask about. The wisdom you want to pass down.
She opens it. She starts reading. And suddenly, she knows you in a way she never did before.
That's the gift LifeScribe helps you create.
Not a gift that gets returned. Not a gift that gets forgotten. A gift that becomes a family treasure, passed down through generations.
Start Your Legacy This Christmas
Your first 3 chapters are completely free. No credit card required. Just your voice, your memories, and 15 minutes of your time.
By New Year's, you could have the beginning of something beautiful—a gift to your family that will never fade, never break, and never be forgotten.
Start Your Free Trial →The Memories That Matter Most
As you sit around the table this Christmas, look at the faces of the people you love. Your spouse of forty years. Your children, who seem to grow older every time you blink. Your grandchildren, who are already becoming their own people.
They want to know you. Really know you.
They want to understand where they come from, what shaped you, and what you hope for them.
This Christmas, give them that gift.
Not because you're writing your obituary—because you're writing your love letter to the future. A letter that says: I was here. I loved. I struggled. I survived. And everything I learned, I'm leaving for you.
That's the gift that outlasts everything under the tree.
That's your legacy.
And it starts with a single story.
Merry Christmas from all of us at LifeScribe. May your holidays be filled with the people—and the stories—that matter most.