Originally Posted by SwissM

How about writing something for the world after you are gone?

I have two kids 2 and 6 and for each one I have a small black leather Moleskine notebook which I keep in my briefcase. I write the funny things they say and do and anything else that I want them to know. I am also working on a more profound "Word to the Wise" type of book for them.

I was inspired to do this by my great-grandfather, who toward the end of his very eventful and adventurous life in the 19th century wrote a book for his grandchildren entitled "For My Grand-Children".