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I don’t know if it's the way for everyone as they get older, but I find myself going back over bits and pieces of my childhood looking f...

Ah, Michael, you are the child who is so unlike me. Sometimes I have looked at you in awe, wondering how it is that I have...

I have been anxious the last six months as I realized that my job, like that of millions of others, was in serious jeopardy. As the economy ...

For the last year and a half, my drug of choice has been genealogy, double stacked with a heavy dose of blogging. Every odd slivered moment ...

You were maybe twenty months old, and we had started using a time out chair when you continued to get into something you had been told not ...

Okay, okay, I lied. I didn’t post my positive thinking piece as promised. But, in mulling it over, I decided that I would let Monday’s post ...

Dear Internet,  I am having a bad day. I do not like Mondays. It is laughable that I chose this day of the week for my positive thinking pos...

Merry Christmas to You and Yours ! © 25 December 2008, Desktop Genealogist Unplugged, Teresa L. Snyder 

Christmas Eve 1973 – This was my first Christmas as a mom. Here my ten-month-old daughter Joy and I are opening a gift. Before motherhood s...

Terry and her siblings Christmas 1968 This was the year after the infamous " Christmas Slap " and right after my braces had been ...

Christmas 1955 - I don't remember much about that Christmas except that I had a bad case of shoe envy. Once I spied my cousin's bla...

Because I love you and because it’s your birthday, I won’t mention the time we were seated at your sister’s sixth grade band concert, and y...

Well, I’ve been tagged twice for this week’s meme that is making the rounds in Geneablogger land. Since I was tagged by two of my favorite b...

I hate November. I always have. The days are short and overcast. Even the thought of the annual Thanksgiving feast is not enough to cheer me...

I just read a piece in the New York Times which said that the election with the largest voter turnout happened 100 years ago, on November 3,...

Karma is a ... well, you know. I made a funny ha, ha about not wanting to drive to Michigan this week, and I may have said something along t...

No, I haven’t died, nor have I fallen off the edge of the earth. (Well, duh, the earth is round and has no edges but I digress.) I’ve just h...

I’ve created a killer, a fly killer, that is. A few weeks ago, in the natural course of an energetic four-year running in and out, a quick t...

The elderly couple came tentatively into the waiting room of the doctor’s office where I sat. Both were white haired. Both were frail lookin...

One year and 199 posts ago, I wrote my first blog post. It was scary. And it was exciting. I had no idea what I was getting into, but I plun...