Down the rabbit hole again

From time to time I get lost in genealogy searches on ancestry.com and end up deep in a rabbit hole. Currently, I'm in a deep, deep one looking for records to validate a family legend. Evidently, this oral history legend has been passed down through my mom's side of the family generation after generation after …

The Return to Learn 2021

Last Tuesday started another school year. It doesn't look significantly different from last year here in the district where Peanut and Twix go to school. They were in-seat  with masks for 2020-2021 school year and did very well overall. This year, masks are required for grades K-5 and highly recommended for grades 6-12. Every year, …

My first childhood memories

What is your earliest memory? How far back can you really remember events, people, places without having the prompt of a photo or story that's been told? 6202 East 96th Street, Kansas City, MO. Out of the blue, I remembered my childhood home address the other day. So, I looked it up on Zillow and …

June at warp speed 2

Yesterday, I posted the beginning of my June at warp speed month. It continued when we took our oldest daughter and the grand girls to Branson, Missouri. Entrepreneur spent weeks organizing this vacay as an end-of-the-school-year trip to congratulate them on doing so well academically in school through a very tough pandemic year. Dogwood Canyon …

June at warp speed 1

June was literally a blur; which is my excuse for being absent in the blogosphere. School let out the end of May and we didn't waste any time at all with the extra curricular activities. This is how it started...... For Columbia 2021: June 5th For Columbia an an annual city-wide service project. This year, …