*Better late than never! Shout-out to my fellow moms who are 50 and still have an elementary schooler at home. Well, no more of that for me! As of May 22, my daughter has leveled up to the junior-senior high school in our district. She and three of her peers were honored last month at the ...
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April Journal: A Light Schedule
Most months, I'm so busy that I look forward to my "nothing weekends". There aren't enough of them lately. April originally had only one "nothing weekend" - which is better than none - but then something came up that simply had to get done one Saturday. My evenings seemed a little more free than in ...
A Belated New Year’s Post
I mean, really belated. It's already the end of March and my main focus this year has been undermining our fascist government. ✌️ Oh, and I changed positions at work at the end of last August, and that has significantly amped up my workload, but I like it. Fortunately for me, I've accomplished ...
Great-Grandparents: The Bartlett-Galfre Side
Today, we're looking at my fourth and final set of great-grandparents. As far as my maternal side goes, these are the folks I know the most about, as well as the Italian side I'm researching most actively. Even though I have dozens of Mayflower lines, one of the lines from this side of the family ...
Great-Grandparents: The Feola-Burrell Side
Now we're going to look at what is, perhaps, the most "controversial" side of my family. For my maternal grandfather's entire life, we believed his father was Herbert Benjamin Haley, Sr. of Brockton, Plymouth, Massachusetts. However, we also knew it was possible that his father was actually his ...
Great-Grandparents: The Shaw-Blake Side
I started a series of posts an embarrassingly long time ago to talk about my 4 sets of great-grandparents, and I'm finally revisiting and finishing that series. This week, we're looking at my paternal grandmother's ancestors and, also, my first revision to my ancestry thanks to the relentless ...