I haven’t posted anything for a while, but not for a lack of doing anything. I’m currently writing a pretty big blog post that I will post on Thursday and I’m getting dangerously behind on my genealogy book (what’s new?), so I’ve been working my butt off to get it back on track. [...]

I don’t want to go on a rant here, but think I have to.
WHY THE HELL DID THE TV SHOW FIREFLY NOT BECOME THE NEXT BIG THING?
I’m probably one of the last people to join the band wagon, but I have to say… That has to have been the best show EVER.
My husband, Joe, had [...]

Today was Earth Day 2008. What did you do to help out?
I found a Eastern painted turtle in the middle of a busy road near our house, far from water, at least from what I could tell. I saw a couple people barely miss hitting him with their cars so I just had [...]

A few months ago someone (I can’t remember who) pointed me to Chris Brogan’s blog post: 100 Blog Topics I Hope YOU Write
I didn’t have a blog at the time, but I knew if I ever did get one I’d eventually end up being at a loss for things to blog about, so I bookmarked [...]

Yesterday I took my daughter to the Akron zoo, our first zoo trip of 2008. It was a lot of fun. Unfortunately, I don’t have any photos to show, because I left our camera at home.
In some cases I was quite shocked at what she was, or was not, interested in. [...]

My husband and I got our new Flip video camera today and I tried it out when I took our daughter out to the local park:

I really like it. It may not be the best video or audio quality, but I’ve never been able to edit video on this computer from any of our [...]

The 46th Carnival of Genealogy topic is “What traits run in your family? Which of them did you inherit?”
The only trait that I can think of that I have inherited is a stubborn streak. Pretty much everyone in my family on my mom’s side has had very strong opinions on things. Unless you [...]

A few days ago I went out to do some chores, grocery shopping, running to the library, etc., and I drove past a local motel. This motel is infamous for renting rooms by the hour.
Turning into the parking lot was a BMW followed by a Lexus.
Now I can think of a couple perfectly good [...]

For those who know me well, you know that I’ve been working on a “genealogy book” for a few months now. I haven’t elaborated on what exactly that means, so I will talk about it here.
I’ve been working on my family’s genealogy for a long time now, and I’ve always wanted to write a book [...]

My grandmother passed away in November of last year and since then my grandfather has been trying to clean out the house. He recently told me that I can have anything I want. Today I stopped by to rummage around in his attic.
I found some family documents, some letters, and a lot of great [...]