Porch Stories

Tell Me Your Story: guided memory journals for Mom, Dad, Grandma and Grandpa

Some stories are only told if someone asks.

Tell Me Your Story is a guided memory journal for the people who raised you. 100 guided questions and 120 quick memory questions, room for photos, printed at home.

Get a journal · $10.99

A printable PDF, not a shipped book. Instant download, print at home or at any print shop.

One question at a time.

Childhood, first jobs, first love, the hard years and the proud ones. Each page asks one thing and leaves room for the answer.

  • 100 guided questions
  • Photo pages
  • Family tree
  • Letter pages

Then it is theirs to keep.

Fill it in together on a quiet evening, or give it and let them write. Either way, the answers stay in the family.

See inside, then start tonight

Instant download. Print at home tonight.

If a file won't open or prints wrong, we fix it or send a new one, and refund you in full if we can't. Refund policy

Want a closer look first? See each journal.

An open memory journal with handwriting, an old family photograph and a fountain pen

What is inside

176 pages, designed like a real book. 100 guided questions and every page has room to write by hand.

Life in chapters
Childhood, school, work, love, family and the years in between, one question per page.
Then and now
Side by side photo pages for who they were and who they are.
A family photo page
A full page for the picture that belongs at the front of the story.
The family tree
Names, dates and places, filled in while someone still remembers them.
Letters
Pages for a letter to the next generation, in their own handwriting.
Keepsakes
A last page for the things worth passing down, and why.
Three generations of the Porch Stories family laughing together on the porch

Meet the Porch family

Our storytellers. You will find them on our channels, asking each other the questions from the journals.

From download to their hands

  1. Download

    Choose their edition. The files are ready to download right after purchase.

  2. Print or use a tablet

    Print at home or at a local print shop, or open it in a PDF note app on a tablet.

  3. They answer

    One question at a time, in their own words and their own handwriting.

  4. The family keeps it

    A book of their life to read again, share and pass down.

A printed memory journal being bound at home
Four Tell Me Your Story journals tied with a red ribbon for Christmas

Coming soon

Hear their voice.

Some answers deserve more than handwriting: the laugh before the punchline, the pause before a name. We are building a simple way to record their answers and keep them with the journal. Join the waitlist and be the first to try it.

Free printable

The 25 questions you’ll wish you had asked

For your Mom, Dad, Grandma or Grandpa: the stories families most often lose, on one page to print or keep on your phone. Free when you join the porch list.