Asking my mother direct questions often was as unsatisfactory as asking my father. The difference was that Mom’s answers were funny. For instance, there was that time I asked her how my name was pronounced. I had struggled with this problem for years, settling on the simplest form: Deb. When Mom was in her seventies […]
Read MoreI’ve been stalling for a few days, deciding on a photograph on which to base my first blog post for the Geneabloggers Fab 40 challenge. And then today, Randy Seaver posted this prompt for his weekly Saturday Night Genealogy Fun—Do you recall the layout of one of your family homes? Can you estimate the size […]
Read MoreToday would have been my mother’s 93rd birthday. It’s been over a decade since she passed, but if I could have just one more day with her, I know exactly how we’d spend it. First, we’d pile all four of my grandchildren into the car and head straight to the Townhouse Diner in Hamden, CT. […]
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Who We Are and How We Got This Way 