Imposter? I just read a post by a friend that feels out of place with her boyfriend’s friends. Her last line was ‘ I was in a world where everyone was genuinely better than me but I was OK with myself.’ She also moaned about not having anything to show…

The Ancestor that disappeared from History One of my ancestors founded a town. Most of the land the town sits on is from his former land…. that being said though the history books are all but completely lacking information about him. Looking through, current books even attribute the town to…

Not the same thing Seeing an editorial in the paper I started thinking about the possible causes of the set back in education mentioned. We got lucky that our son advanced during the pandemic… but we spent a lot of time, effort, and got a lot of resources to make…

Hobo Markings (and the Underground Railroad that led me there) A recent meeting I attended included a tour of a home that was on the Underground Railroad. I have to admit I signed up for the meeting simply because I really wanted to know more about the house and the…

Planning to attend a wedding and my husband suggested camping… Growing up my experience with camping was a tent in our yard or the van pulled up by the door so that we could sleep out in it. Asking my dad about going camping always resulted in the same ‘We…

Driving, tractors, trailers and even go carts My first years were spent in a trailer in my aunt’s yard. My parents first lived in a single wide trailer and when my brother came along, they upgraded to a double wide. During that time my mother tells stories of everything from…

Everything…. I just saw those words on an advertisement for a show…. Not sure which show, but I think it was about a shark attack. I remember saying those words before taking an exchange student in. I wrote some about what happened here…. The day we signed up for her…

Or is it my past tinging the current? Starting college, I loved computers. I’m not sure why I chose another major at the time, I don’t think it was gender related…. That said I took a lot of computational mathematics classes in my free time. Being from a small rural…

People see what they want to see Reading the paper, I was surprised to see a letter to the editor claiming the January 6th committee is all about nothing. The author seemed to focus on Cassie Hutchinson’s testimony, claiming that the Secret Service disputed her story. Yet what I saw…