My mother lives in Ireland with the majority of my family and I live in Wales, so we don't get to see her much at all, maybe only once or twice a year. I miss her and my family everyday and it makes the time we do get to spend together even more precious.
I go at least once a week to my mother's home and have coffee with her and my step father. I also will go in occasionally and do house work for them just to let them know I appreciate them and to thank them for my life thus far. I try to help in small ways and as they get older I will help in larger ways.
But I try to spend as much time just sitting and visiting as often as possible.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.