Ancestry
What are we looking for?
Wednesday, March 31st, 2010What are we looking for when we are researching our ancestors or our DNA? Why do we want to write our life stories or record history of any kind? When I speak to people or watch shows about these topics I am always struck by the deep longing involved in the search. Two shows have [...]
Your Life Story, now, tomorrow, 2010
Tuesday, December 29th, 2009The holidays are almost over. Did you enjoy them? Did they fulfill every thing? Many of us have idealized images of the holidays. We have the picture postcard one. You know the one with happy smiling faces of family surrounding the perfectly cooked turkey. There is the tree, perfectly lit in the background, with presents, [...]
Mother’s Day Proclamation
Saturday, May 9th, 2009From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The “Mother’s Day Proclamation” by Julia Ward Howe was one of the early calls to celebrate Mother’s Day in the United States. Written in 1870, Howe’s Mother’s Day Proclamation was a pacifist reaction to the carnage of the American Civil War and the Franco-Prussian War. The Proclamation was tied to [...]
A bit of green
Monday, March 16th, 2009The First Taste by Patrick Hammer, Jr. 2009 The winter light goes quick. Stars and moon cover up their face. Night trails its fingers in blank blindness through the trees. Night offers nothing to the eye. No shadow even of what moved earlier in each dark corner. The night fastens a long black caul to [...]
Today’s Take Action Prompt: Pretend You’re an Interviewer
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008Look at the things you have learned and seen. A quiet life is not an empty life – it is full of wishes and dreams that deserve expressing. Begin simply. Choose a decade. Any one decade that appeals to you. Write a short paragraph for each year in the decade. A brief outline of some [...]