The time has come. The garden is planted. We have the usual suspects this year: Zucchini Butternut squash Green beans Cucumbers Cantalope Cauliflower Tomatoes Chili peppers Green pepers Corn Peas Watermelon In containers on the back porch, we have cilantro, basil, and some ...
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My Lifelong Research Project
In 2016 when I attended the Nebraska State Genealogical Society Conference, featured speaker Joshua Taylor made mention of those ancestors who become our lifelong research projects. Mine is my great-great grandmother, Emma Anna Murphy. I wrote about Emma constantly in the previous iteration of my ...
Happiness
I was planting seedlings in our garden today and wondering, Am I happy? It's a normal question for anyone to ask from time to time in their lives. And today, probably stemmed from the fact that I was lamenting the need to work versus get our garden ready. But the fact remained that the garden did ...
Making a House a Home
We've been working on home improvements every since we bought our home in 2013. This wasn't a place we bought as a dream home. No, no, no. This was a place we bought with the idea of making it a place we would want to live. Location and size were the biggest factors in our purchasing decision. That ...
How DNA Changed My Family History
With the availability of DNA testing, I've seen quite a shift in what I always thought I knew about my family. It started in 1989. I saw a photo my grandmother had of her family and wanted to learn more about it. I found out that the little girl in the picture was my great-grandmother, Nina Gertrude ...
Full Circle
As a witch, I believe many things in life come full circle - work, family, and who we are, just to name a few. Seasons change, but they always cycle back around. The same goes for astrological events, such as a planet changing signs, whether it happens over a day, a week, a month, a year... or even ...