As I write this, many people, including one of my closest friends, are praying that 2018 hurries up and disappears. They need and deserve, 2019 to be better. I’m taking this opportunity to express my thanks that 2018 was really pretty nice to me. Sure, there were some trials in our family. For example, our […]
Read MoreThe blog prompt for Week # 26 of Amy Johnson Crow’s 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks was “Black Sheep.” I wrote about Scott’s great-grandmother, Catherine Seeley Fitzallen that week. She was most decidedly a “black ewe”, quite naughty and quite the character! As part of that post, I included the first chapter of the book I […]
Read MoreLast week’s 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks blog prompt was “Winter.” Enjoy this TBT (Throwback Thursday) collection of some “winter gems.” Above is the backyard of my childhood home. Probably mid-1960s. You can’t even see the houses anymore due to tree growth! The photo below is one of my favorites! Little sister, Betsy is definitely enjoying […]
Read MoreIt seems appropriate, on this, the seventh anniversary of my mother’s passing, to share a bit about her. Doris May Lichtenthal was born on March 5, 1932. She left this earth after, in her words, “finishing her job,” on December 2, 2011. Mom was 79. For more than seven decades, she dedicated herself to family […]
Read MoreOn the occasion of our father’s funeral service, my sister Alexandra wrote, “This is the sixth family: the family joined now by our common loss as well as by our common love. From Jessica in his first family to Sandra in his fifth family, and including all of us kids in between — we are […]
Read MoreOnce again, I am skipping around the weekly prompts for Amy Johnson Crow’s 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks blog challenge to respond to the Week 42 topic – Conflict. It’s not exactly typical genealogy, but consistent with my goal of documenting my generation’s story. I was searching for a way to connect to this topic when […]
Read More“Sports” is the topic for Week 41 of Amy Johnson Crow’s 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks blog challenge. There is only one sport I can write about: HOCKEY. Hockey is the only sport I really know anything about. I can fake my way through baseball – after all, it’s just guys hitting a ball and […]
Read MoreI am jumping ahead a few weeks so that this post appears on Halloween. Much more timely than staying in order and posting this during the week of Thanksgiving!! (I’m a bit behind on posts for Amy Johnson Crow’s 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks blog challenge!) I thought you might enjoy seeing a few of my […]
Read MoreTen. A decade. The first whole number with more than one digit. “Ten” is the prompt for Week 40 of Amy Johnson Crow’s 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks blog challenge. It seems like a great opportunity to share a little about my tenth year of life. In 1965, I was 10 years old and in […]
Read MoreMy parents were “city folk.” My mother was born in the beautiful city of Vienna, Austria and emigrated to the New York City suburb of New Rochelle in 1938. My father, Alan Samuel, was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York before moving to New Rochelle where he met, then married my mother. (She actually […]
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Who We Are and How We Got This Way 