How digitizing home movies helped me create new family moments from old memories

How digitizing home movies helped me create new family moments from old memories

When I lost my mother last year, I had a lot of her stuff to go through. It’s a painful rite of passage, especially as an only child, combing through all of the things a parent leaves behind. Among many of her cherished possessions was a storage box filled with nearly 50 videotapes, mostly documenting my childhood and adolescence. I’ve talked about my grief journey before and how I escaped into nostalgia to cope with my loss, but now, going thro…