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Wednesday, February 15, 2023

Wordless Wednesday - A little dirt, a summer breeze, a chair for balance - what more could a little boy want?

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Saturday, February 4, 2023

DNA Ethnicity Estimates, or Why do they keep saying I’m Scandinavian?

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  I am not usually an early adopter. In fact,  my middle name could very well be Cautious, with a capital “C.”  I will research an expenditu...
Monday, January 16, 2023

Deep Within My Genes: In My Grandmother's Kitchen

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Today is my paternal grandmother’s birthday.  Depending on whether you believe her marriage certificate or her baptismal record, she would h...
Wednesday, December 21, 2022

Wordless Wednesday - Christmas Massacre

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Thursday, December 1, 2022

Of Mothers and Daughters and Dinner Parties — Part II Redux

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  Sometimes, when you throw a question out into the universe, you get a response.   In January of 2008, I asked a series of questions for th...
Thursday, November 24, 2022

Over the River and Through the Woods - Some Hoy Thanksgivings

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The picture below was taken 8 days before Thanksgiving 1916.  It is the wedding picture of my maternal grandparents, Frank Eugene Hoy and Ka...
Monday, November 14, 2022

Then, with eyes that saw not . . .

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Sometimes, I think, it is good to be reminded that as all encompassing as a personal loss is, there are those who travel their own path of l...
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