How to Capture Family History in a Book of My Things – Course Countdown: Day 1 – My Dad’s Old Latin-German Stowasser Dictionary
I'm so excited that my online course Capturing Family History in a Book of My Things begins in ten days that I decided to run a countdown. I'll be sharing some of my stories about family objects, including tidbits of my process putting them together. Hopefully that'll give you some ideas and inspire you to come up with some [...]
Pumpkin Bread: One of my Favorite Quick Bread Recipes that Always Reminds Me of an Old Friend
Lately I have been sharing recipes from dear friends; recipes that have become family favorites (see White Chicken Chili recipe). Today's recipe for pumpkin bread comes from my friend Dawn Pleasant. We worked at the same company in the early '90s - my very first job in the U.S. Even though Dawn is my mom's generation, we became fast [...]
Offering a New Online Course: Capture your Family History in a Book of Your Things
Are you interested in finally “doing something” with your family history? Would you like to organize and present your family history in a way that will be useful and interesting for the next generation? "Doing something" with your family history can be overwhelming. Maybe you don’t know where to start, or you have too much material, or too little, [...]
The Best from Our North Dakota Road Trip: Wide Open Horizons, Fab Fargo, Muddy Hikes and Grand Badland Vistas
This is all I really wanted from our trip to North Dakota: The open road and wide, wide horizons. (That, and finally visiting Theodore Roosevelt National Park, see below.) I took this picture on our first day driving I-94 going west. Fargo, North Dakota's biggest city and right across the Red River from Minnesota, was our first stop. [...]
The Best Recipe for Leftover Chicken or Turkey: White Chili
This recipe is from my friend Nita Brooks, who's a) a quintessential Southern belle, and b) an amazing cook. She prepares the greatest dinners at my former online writing group's conferences (which hopefully we can do in person again!). Cooking for a crowd is its own skill! At one of these conferences she made this chili, and I loved [...]
The One Gift from Grandma: an Amber-Colored Glass Candy Dish
In 1978, when I was fifteen, my mother and I flew from Germany to Detroit for an extended trip around the U.S. First up was Michigan to visit her extended family. By then, my mom and her mom had been estranged for several years. We stayed at her older brother's place, which was more like a bustling chicken coop [...]