All the posts that are about just for today … a memoir is the remembered notes and reflections of the day to day. These include reflections of COVID, of days at home, and just thoughts about life.
Memoir is a popular genre of books, as well, and many of these posts started out as ideas that seemed they could be their own book … and yet they didn’t become that.
“Little pieces of life” is how I think of them. Somehow I couldn’t quite get them all to connect. But many of them are very fine.
In which I go on Ancestry.com: Sometime ago, I first became aware of the online family tree builder and genealogical research tool, Ancestry.com. Some friends and relatives had been using it before me, probably more people than I could actually list, and key genealogists on both my father’s and my mother’s side were becoming knowledgeable […]
I just got back from jogging two and a half miles. With the dogs. They are my running companions and without them running might not be possible. Because when there’s no human around to guilt you into running, a dog will do just fine. They jump up and stare at you the second you get
So my son came to me the other day. “You’ve gotta watch this,” he said. Apparently this Dr. Squatch soap is all the rage with the young men set. Apparently the brand has enjoyed a 400 percent growth in revenue, arguably because of their approachable YouTube advertising. Watching the video, I developed the following mini-essay
Science doesn’t have an answer for that is the favorite saying of the day. My mom is reading ENLIGHTENMENT NOW by Steven Pinker. “This is the book that explains everything,” she said. “I heard about it from your little brother.” I read up on this in the Guardian: With some deft intellectual moves, [Pinker] manages
