Celebrate Wisdom....Coming Soon

We all love a story ...and we love all our storytellers...

Introducing the opportunity to have recorded and beautifully packaged the stories, reminisces, life experiences, life wisdom and advise of older parents or any cherished individuals to be permanent, cherished and retained by future generations.  A great birthday, anniversary or general gift to yourself or a loved one -- the life stories and life lessons and hopes and dreams for family members recorded in a friendly, insightful way, edited and accompanied by an opening describing our interview experience and observations about the individual and sentiments they most represent.  This is a strong way to demonstrate the meaningfulness and intense value placed on the lives of the still healthy, sick and those with early onset Alzheimer's.  

“Celebrate Wisdom” is a business initiative co-founded by two women who were inspired to provide a meaningful experience and end product to people with a great deal of life experiences and wisdom to offer family members and future generations.   We have both originated from strong family backgrounds, and we both have experienced the premature loss of siblings, and the loss of parents before there was time to record and make permanent the incredible wisdom and richness of their life experiences.  The time to do anything of critical importance and value is always now, while there is time to fully appreciate how full circle lives really become.  As strong writers and strong listeners, with an appreciation for protecting what is most valuable in a very technologically oriented and disposable society, our goal is to provide individuals and their families with an in-depth blueprint of life experiences and lessons, some profound, some whimsical but all reflecting the individuality of the person interviewed.  In synchrony with our desire to offer a more traditional alternative of permanence to the more changing and fleeting forms of media to which we have all become accustomed, these thoughts and reminisces will be packaged in a beautiful, fine quality book, that can be accompanied by photos, and will physically represent the permanence of life experiences and every person’s place in the universe.  

Be on the lookout for more information coming soon, including a sample product and pricing.  Please contact us with any early interest in our service and product.  In the meantime, please read below to become more familiar with our qualifications.

As you can see from our backgrounds, we have over half a century of a combination of writing, business and counseling experience between us to utilize in capturing the essence of the individuals that we interview. . .

Ellen T. Mihovics

Ms. Mihovics holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Communications from Iona College, a Master of Arts in Public Communications from Fordham University and a Master of Science in Counseling from Mercy College.  She also completed credentialed alcohol and substance abuse counseling training.  She spent over twenty years of her career with MetLife as a writer working on executive speeches, retirement tributes, recognition sales audio-visual scripts and product brochures.  She also worked at Prudential Financial Services and TIAA-CREF and then in order to spend more time with her family, Ms. Mihovics moved into education where she is currently a Guidance Counselor at Valley Middle School in Oakland, New Jersey.   She maintains a blog of thoughts on life events at http://ellenmihovics.blogspot.com  The mother of four college-age children, Ms. Mihovics  grew up in the Bronx and has resided with her family in Nanuet, New York for the last twenty seven years. 

Margaret Gallagher

Ms. Gallagher holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology and Sociology from Marywood University and a Master of Business Administration from Pace University.  She spent thirteen years with MetLife as a product marketing consultant.  She is currently a candidate for a Master of Education degree in Secondary Education Counseling from Kutztown University.  Ms. Gallagher is employed by the Allentown School District in Allentown, Pennsylvania through a grant- funded program providing services and support for students in the midst of overcoming challenges and obstacles to complete their education.   Ms. Gallagher was born and raised in West Nyack, New York.  An avid gardener and decorator, she and her son now live in Orefield, Pennsylvania.