Oddly, my own culinary life is mimicking Grandma’s this week as I am making chicken & noodles today and just did beef vegetable soup yesterday, of which, I also froze some! I’m anxiously awaiting the mention of some bean soup
Remembering Dad
My father passed away in October. It’s taken me a while to write this. I started this two weeks after he’d passed with the intent to publish it much sooner; it’s just taken me this long to get my thoughts
Finding Grandpa Lemaster
I had the great fortune of finally meeting up with Gail Skaggs, her brother Timothy and her mom. I’d contacted Gail almost two years ago through Find a Grave to discuss my great-grandpa William Arby Lemaster because she seemed to have
My New Heirloom
My mom sent me a picture of my grandma Clara Lou Peters Stewart on her wedding day recently. It reminded me that she showed me her wedding dress once when I was little. I’m not sure why she had it
The Importance of Speaking to the Living
I cannot stress the importance of speaking to your living relatives NOW before it’s too late. In my genealogy course I taught, that was practically my first tip to my students and right now, I’m truly needing to practice what