...blog, musings & stories....

Monday, November 29, 2021

As often happens we start out with one thing in mind for project, a meet up, a session, and whatever the “thing” is turns out to be a ...

Sunday, September 12, 2021

…what’s in a name, Mr. Brown? Hmmm is this a rhetorical question? We are identified by our name, some of us choose our name perhaps ...

Friday, June 18, 2021

We don’t know what we don’t know?As a family historian and genealogist, I marvel as I learn about the lives of our ancestors. Where did ...

The Photograph

Friday, May 28, 2021

During the summer and fall of 2007, I was corresponding with a new-online-cousin. (How I found her is for another blog post.) We were ...

Sunday, May 09, 2021

grain of truth in every story…1917 the family mystery... January 12th 2016 I solved it … almost 99 years…solved the ...

...my friend B

Saturday, May 01, 2021

…my friend "B""B", aka Barbara, lived on the road behind my home in the mountains. She’s a walker, twice a day most days, sometimes with ...

Monday, July 08, 2019

…doesn’t every mystery start with a question? This one did… from my Mom, she sends this picture in an email to me, and our ...

Saturday, May 25, 2019

…I’ve posted her once before on Facebook, but here is the rest of the story…. I’ve had the copy of the National Geographic ...

Friday, July 07, 2017

Would you know? That person you see in the coffee shop, meet at a friend’s home for a party, weekend BBQ, or simply walking down the ...

...sweethearts

Monday, June 26, 2017

We were high school sweethearts...Terry graduated from Livermore High in 1961 and I graduated 1962. After Graduation Terry attended San ...

Monday, November 14, 2016

This story was written in 2001 as Stephanie Ryan & I worked together on her family history, I'm sharing here with her permission. I'd been doing ...

...connections

Monday, November 07, 2016

Connections, some we know, others surprise us, and I wonder at those we may never realize...1965, Sonoma Avenue School, Livermore, Mrs. Fuller's ...

Wednesday, May 04, 2016

When did it happen? I’m a female, wife, mother, nana, photographer, family historian, genealogist, the list goes on, but when did we label ...

Tuesday, January 26, 2016

...50 years ago these little girls met in kindergarten, and now a lifetime later we can still play nicely in the sandbox ...

Monday, September 14, 2015

What is irreplaceable? This would mean so many variables to any number of people… Valuable, life changing, and heart breaking. Given the ...