StoryWorth. Each week the service sends an email that contains a single question (What was your mother like? What is your fondest childhood memory? And—yes—what regrets do you have?). The recipient responds with a story. At the end of the year, those stories are compiled into a hardcover book. Because of the poke of If Only, she said, “I seek out more meaning. I seek out more connection. . . . I don’t want to feel the way when my parents die that I felt about my grandparents of ‘What did I miss?’ ”

