Jabberwocky
Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great question.
Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
Like Alice in Wonderland, many of us spend inordinate amounts of time trying to figure out who we are. Some put little effort…
Read moreApr 18 2023
Jabberwocky
Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great question.
Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
Like Alice in Wonderland, many of us spend inordinate amounts of time trying to figure out who we are. Some put little effort…
Read moreApr 11 2023
The race-shifters are coming out of the woodwork like ants attracted to honey--Hollywood actors, singers, academics, writers, and of late, even a university president--all relying on old family tales to claim one more trophy, the cachet of having a ggggg…grandmother…
Read moreMay 2 2019
You are of royal descent because everyone is.
--Adam David Rutherford
When Edward Longshanks came to the throne of England in 1272, he literally stood out among my 4 million or so relatives in the 13th century. When the average…
Read moreFeb 13 2019
Back in 1899, when everybody sang auld lang syne...
Steve Goodman, The Twentieth Century is Almost Over.
Expressions of sorrow and condolence appeared regularly in newspapers of the day. A notice in The Twillingate Sun in October 1891 was typical:…
Read moreJan 29 2019
Someday, you'll be an ancestor too
If truth be told, I have always been a Walter Mitty type, daydreaming about my exotic origins, living in heroic times, wielding the pitiless sword of righteousness.
I first became aware of this tendency…
Read moreJan 22 2019
Little Flowers of Love, That Blossomed but to Die...
Stories of survival, determination, and tragedy dominate our history. This one begins at the tail-end of the nineteenth century and continued into the waning years of the twentieth. On June 29,…
Read moreJan 16 2019
The past is never dead. It's not even past
...William Faulkner
The photograph, remarkable for its detail and clarity, was taken at L'Anse au Pigeon (Lancy Pigeon) on the French Shore of northern Newfoundland in the summer of 1910. Many…
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