Where did we come from?
Today's the Fourth of July Another June has gone by And when they light up our town I just think What a waste of gunpowder and sky... --Aimee Mann The post Where did we come from? appeared first on...
View ArticleNow.. Generations.
Generations. Today I relate better to 40-year-olds than I do to 19-year-olds. I have friends in their 30s who relate really well to me, and to everyone else I know who's close to my age, but I can't...
View ArticleMore Wikipedia adventures
I've been writing for the Wikipedia a fair bit lately. I was adapting some out-of-copyright articles about Civil War generals when the Columbia disaster happened, and I was shocked to see the...
View ArticlePretentious Pontifications: The word of the day
The word if the day is "gat." I understand that David's boss did not know what that means. I take that as a sign of aristocracy, for among gentlemen, only those with a love of linguistics tend to know...
View ArticleGetting started in Genealogy
I'll admit it. I'm not ashamed of it. I'm a johnny-come-lately to the genealogy game. My computer can tell you how I'm related to more than 1,200 different people. And I just started last week. The...
View ArticleDon\’t blame the demon
Dennis Rader, the confessed BTK serial killer, blamed the killings today on a demon inside him. I don't know if he was speaking literally or figuratively. I believe in demons. I also believe in...
View ArticleR.I.P.? The American Dream
Nearly 20 years ago, as I sat in a high school English class, the teacher told us all about the American Dream. And then she said there was one generation that wasn't going to experience that dream,...
View ArticleHow the Republican Party is losing me
I tend to lean to the right. For as long as I understood what it meant to be conservative or liberal, Republican or Democrat, I called myself a conservative Republican. In college, I wrote a newspaper...
View ArticleRemembering Private McAdow
I had numerous ancestors who fought in the U.S. Civil War. On my mom’s side, one of my direct ancestors was a Union spy during the war. He was captured three times. We joke sometimes that he was better...
View ArticleDepartment 56 vs Lemax
Department 56 vs Lemax is a battle between the two biggest names in holiday villages. There are a lot of similarities between the two brands, but the differences may matter to you. Here’s what you need...
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