“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…
Tag: genealogy
Merry Christmas! Happy Holidays! Author/Blogger Promotion!
Yes, it’s a little too soon, but I wanted to offer all of you wonderful writers an opportunity to promote yourselves here in the next few months. š AUTHOR PROMOTION in two ways: 1.Family Histories I’m hoping to do a holiday edition of Family Histories. Those of you who participated in the past are welcome…
NewYork & The Civil War
A Dead Civil War Soldier Waldo Potter was a cousin of mine who perished on the battlefield the day before Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox. It was only the beginning of April and in Upstate New York where his family awaited news of his whereabouts the earth was still barren of color and cold….
Family Histories: LOSS OF A PATRIARCH
Poignant memories of a strong but kind fisherman grandfather.
Family Histories: Kin Types by Luanne Castle
By combining a passion for family history with my creative writing, I felt able toāfor a brief momentāinhabit the lives of women and men from previous generations and imagine how their stories felt to them.
Do You Hear Voices?
This sense of knowing the past through dead relatives, of knowing them though never having met them is so similar to knowing the characters I write about.
