
Learning about History, and an Update on My Work-in-Progress
I’ll begin this post with a shout-out to M.K. Tod, who writes a wonderful blog

I’ll begin this post with a shout-out to M.K. Tod, who writes a wonderful blog

This December thus far has brought us a lot of Seattle gray. A lot of

Remembering last week’s Thanksgiving celebration brings a smile to my face. I think the memories
I’ve written several posts about the cruise (see here, here, and here) we took this
Tomorrow would have been my father’s 86th birthday, so I have been thinking about him.

On New Year’s Day, I posted that my resolution for 2025 was to vote “present”

The last time I wrote about my current work-in-progress was in mid-March. At that point,
We don’t know what will suddenly bring a dormant memory to consciousness. For Proust, it
I first visited Missouri in early June 1977, before my now-husband and I were married.
In May 2010, my husband, his mother, and I took a road trip to New Orleans,
After the Cannon Beach portion of my recent trip west, my husband and I spent

Much like the current pandemic, the California Gold Rush started at a specific epicenter and
I’ve described before some of the problems I’ve faced because my parents decided to call
Both my dad and my mother’s father took lots of pictures over the years. As

A friend of mine recently emailed me an article from the Mayo Clinic on “popcorn
I’ve recently read two articles that made me think about the importance of telling our
On Saturday, March 2, 2019, other family members and I attended the Friends of Arrow