OK. So, you know I went to Charlottesville, Virginia yesterday to visit Katie Wilson Meade’s granddaughter, Elizabeth. It was a great visit. I promise to give you the details about what it was like, but I need to get something out of the way, off my chest first. It’s big. […]
Last week, I mentioned that Katie Wilson Meade’s granddaughter shared a seven-page narrative that Katie wrote about her (and Emmett’s) childhood when they lived in Belize. Katie, Emmett, and Julian were the only Wilson children born in Belize. They emigrated back to the U.S. in 1884. Emmett and Julian were […]
For the record, the Acknowledgements “page” for Emmett’s book is six pages long. But now and then, I do feel tempted just to keep it simple and write something like this. Just kidding. 🙂 Have a good weekend!
Next week is the visit with Katie Wilson Meade’s granddaughter in Charlottesville. I’m doing my homework, preparing questions, and putting together a collection of photos and documents about the Wilson family that she might not have. I’m interested to learn about the dynamic between Katie and her siblings. Was she […]
Yesterday, I celebrated my quinquennial colonoscopy. Said procedure took place at high noon, after not eating any solid foods for almost 40 hours. The hardest part was the first 12 hours, in my view. I also almost tore into my kids’ lunches as I was making them yesterday morning (that […]
Guys, fantastic news! The New York Public Library released 180K historic images to a digital archive, and yes, instead of braving the frigging cold of 16 degrees (as it is outside right now), you and I can peruse in our pajamas! One very cool feature of the NYPL is this […]
I’ve not been posting much in the past week for a few reasons: Mostly, I haven’t had the time with the kids out of school for the past 10 days, managing all of their transportation to and from activities. And, as I was getting ready to head out to a […]
Have you seen this? Yep, that’s a lawmaker getting ready to go nighty-night right there in the office. The NPR story, which can be found here, says it is a matter of circumstances for many of our elected officials: It is expensive to live in D.C., to plunk down an […]
Hello! How was your Christmas? Ours is a rather low-key celebration of the holiday. Typically, we would hunker down around the fireplace with hot chocolate and old movies, but we haven’t had a fire in the hearth in over two weeks, and it was just too darned hot for hot […]
Source: The Sky and Tomorrow The blog post at the link, above, is about closure; or, more accurately, Robert Barron’s effort to honor an author who inspired him as a young man. I note similarities between this blog post and my research: Barron’s goal was to erect a proper memorial to […]
Tell my story. 