Wednesday, December 12, 2018
For Love Of Family
The first genealogy that I ever read that I can remember is that of Jesus in the Holy Bible. It was fascinating to me that the Old Testament of the Bible contained the stories of the people listed in the genealogy from Adam on and the New Testament tells the story of the birth of Christ which we are...
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Tuesday, December 11, 2018
Diving In
How does a would-be writer pick up on a story that happened almost a century ago, and was dropped from all intention of continuation more than three years ago? Bits and pieces of the story already told attack my pea-brain with accusations of malpractice in the art of storytelling, while parts untold...
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Monday, December 10, 2018
Here We Go Again
In the year of our Lord 2015, over a period of several months, here on Blogit I wrote the story of My Oklahoma Family, beginning with an ancestor born in Scotland around the year 1800. It was quite an undertaking for me, even though I enjoyed putting it together in my own words. When I got to the...
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Thursday, December 6, 2018
Jolabokaflod--Christmas Book Flood
Years ago, around 2004, there was a Blogit member from Iceland. I can't remember his name. We read each other's posts and commented to each other. After a bit of that, he tried to get me to visit him in Iceland. That seemed just a bit drastic to me at the time even though I'm sure it is an...
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Tuesday, December 4, 2018
I'm Still Here
Even though winter is not really here....yet...it surely does seem like winter. Cold...snow...thick gray clouds that hide any thought of sunshine. It is interesting how the seasons are so different some years. It will be interesting to see how the winter unfolds...after it does get here. I never...
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