Category: Family Histories: Guest Posts
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What is your first memory?
My mother had a recurring dream while we lived in the cottage beside the river. Great rains would come and she’d wake to find the house unhinged upon the flooding water. Her brand new sewing machine sat upon a porch the real cottage didn’t have. The machine’s weight tilted the house to one side and…
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“Your life is your medicine.” Dr. Cassie Huckabee
Only yesterday, I called my adult daughter to ask her to tell me I was an okay writer. My mother once knitted and donated an entire barnyard full of stuffed animals — a grey horse with glorious mane and mini bridle, a cow with black spots and pink udders, and pigs with soft, felted snouts…
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I’ve never written to anyone before and I quite like it.
A loyal friend is like a safe shelter; find one, and you have found a treasure. Nothing else is as valuable; there is no way of putting a price on it. A loyal friend is like a medicine that keeps you in good health. Sirach 6:14-16 There is nothing like the thrill of opening the…
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Family Histories: An Unexpected Trip
Welcome to Family Histories, a series of guest posts by some of my favorite bloggers in which they explore family . . . and history. The families and the histories are sometimes the writers’ own and sometimes not. Today BRIAN from EQUINOXIO shares a secret story from his mother who served in the French Women’s…
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Family Histories (Holiday Edition): Dad’s Birthday
Welcome to Family Histories (Holiday Edition). I’ve invited readers and bloggers to share holiday themed pieces with the accent on “Family” and “History” in any way they like. This story by my friend LUANNE CASTLE nearly made me cry so get ready for a beautiful love story! When I was nine, my mother took my…
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Family Histories: Family Traits Good and Bad
“They said in the D.A.R.E. class that since my real mother did drugs Then I probably would too.” (D.A.R.E. is the anti-drug class taught in many public schools in the U.S.) This is why too much information given to children may sometimes be a bad thing. Our newly adopted daughter is only mildly intellectually disabled…
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Family Histories (Holiday Edition):Do You Have a Favorite Christmas Ornament?
Welcome to Family Histories (Holiday Edition). I’ve invited readers and bloggers to share holiday themed pieces with the accent on “Family” and “History” in any way they like. Today we have a beautiful piece about the simple pleasure of decorating a family Christmas tree written by one of my favorite bloggers, A.M. PINE at HEARTH…
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Family Histories (Holiday Edition): The Empty Chair
Welcome to Family Histories, a series of guest posts by some of my favorite bloggers in which they explore family . . . and history. The families and the histories are sometimes the writers’ own and sometimes not. Today my friend SHARON BONIN-PRATT of INK FLARE shares with us the many mixed emotions one feels…
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Family Histories: The Copper Coffee Pot
Welcome to Family Histories, a series of guest posts by some of my favorite bloggers in which they explore family . . . and history. The families and the histories are sometimes the writers’ own and sometimes not. Today I’m happy to share a poignant poem from MIRIAM IVARSON about connecting to her seafaring forefathers…
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Family Histories (Holiday Edition): How I Stay in Touch With Far-flung Family
Celebrating the holidays with family members who can’t make it home for the festivities can be an emotional challenge. Here JACQUI MURRAY shares her methods for bringing family together though miles apart in the holiday edition of FAMILY HISTORIES. Thank you so much, Adrienne (author of The Tenafly Road Series), for inviting me to again participate in this…
Author Adrienne Morris 