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help corporate clients link their communication skills and profitability. Her client list covers every major profession, and her work
has taken her throughout the United States as well as to England. She is still working with her first client, a relationship that
spans 25 years.
One of the hallmarks of her workshops is her stories. “My life has been filled with wonderful stories,” she acknowledges, “but I’m
not unique. All of us have rich stories…moments of insight, joy, connection, struggle…moments that define our ‘lived truth.’ Our
stories are always one generation from extinction. That’s why we need to preserve them and pass them on.”
This passion for storytelling led Lucie and a college classmate to co-author Create Your Own Family Originals, a book that
inspires others to celebrate their stories. The book has been in national distribution since 2005. She has also written two books
on business writing: The Business Writer’s Reference Manual, and What They Never Told You in English 101.
Because she believes in living out her commitment, Lucie has traveled to Africa as part of an intergenerational team to build a
hospital. She has also partnered with educational alliances to link workplace skills and public education. Teaching is at the
heart of everything she does, tapping human potential to go beyond the problem to envision the solution, and to move from
“position” to shared understanding.
Lucie has a B.A. in English from Agnes Scott College and a Master’s in English from Georgia State University. She lives in
Columbia with her husband Bob and their yellow Lab Hollywood
College in Decatur, Georgia, Lucy married a native Texan. Eric and Lucy then moved to Dallas where they lived for 17 years.
Eric’s job led the Lewis family to Houston in 1989. As she had done in Dallas, Lucy quickly became involved in school,
community, and church volunteer activities. A sustaining member of the Junior League, Lucy has always viewed volunteer work
as a wonderful way to meet people, to feel a part of a city and community, and especially to connect and contribute. Over the
years Lucy’s volunteer work activities have ranged from working as a docent for the Dallas Zoo giving hands-on demonstrations
with a 10 foot boa constrictor to serving as President of the Houston Symphony League.
When her three daughters were one at a time heading out the door for college, Lucy began focusing on a business of making
memory albums. She began helping people organize their photographs to preserve them. This business included everyone
from young mothers making albums of their children to baby boomers making heritage albums about ancestors, from travelers
chronicling their vacations to brides organizing their party pictures. Lucy has also worked with businesses to create memory
albums for retiring executives and has even been contacted to preserve the stories and histories of businesses.
Lucy is quick to say that she truly has a passion for preserving family stories and helping other people do the same. Years ago,
she began calling herself a “photo paramedic” because she was helping others “rescue” their pictures and their memories from
dust and demise.
It was her album-making business and her family focus that led Lucy to reconnect with a college classmate at a 30th college
reunion and decide to write what is now described as a guide book that celebrates family, friends and relationships. Create
Your Own Family Originals shares 500 ways to highlight the meaning for a specific time, place, item, event or person. As an
author with a focus on preserving family stories, Lucy enjoys making presentations to community groups, book clubs, church
groups, and women’s organizations.
Lucy and Eric love to travel, especially to a family vacation spot in the mountains of New Mexico. In addition, some of their other
favorite travel spots include Dallas, Texas, Washington, DC, and New York City where three daughters live and work.
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