"I never thought of myself as someone with stories worth recording. They're just memories - things that happened growing up in Waipahu in the '50s, funny moments with family, a pig named Sharon who had absolutely no respect for my mother's plans. But EraLoom sat me down and just let me talk, and somewhere in the middle of telling about Sharon waddling into the living room to meet the minister, I realized - this is worth saving. The process was easy. There was no pressure to be polished or profound. I just told it the way I'd tell anyone - the Coke bottle feedings, the bedrooms that all connected, my mother's face when Sharon came oinking through the kitchen right up to the poor man's leg. EraLoom captured all of it, exactly the way I said it. My grandchildren are never going to meet Sharon. They'll never know what it was like growing up in that house, with my mother trying so hard to make a good impression on the new minister while her kids were in the back room completely failing at the one job she gave us. But now they can hear it from me, in my own words, the way I actually remember it. That's what EraLoom does. It takes the stories you think are just yours and makes sure they don't disappear. I'm so glad I did this."- Tina S., Kamuela, HI
Preserved her family's stories, 2024