Today is my 31st birthday. Yes siree, I made it through the first year of my 30s and am every bit as excited to embrace the second as I fe...

...That seems to ensure I fall ill during some part, or all of, the month each year. The causes and culprits are often different (or at le...

✯ Day 287 of Vintage 365 ✯   It was a cold morning, whatever remnants of the short-lived summer may have lingered into fall had already di...

✯ Day 94 of Vintage 365 ✯ A good friend - and fellow genealogy enthusiast - of mine, Louise, once said something to me to the extent o...

The family’s all here, my great-grandparents, a third cousin twice removed, a distant uncle, even my great-great-great grandfathers sister, ...