Enough of us.
Despite repeated arguments that the election results were fraudulent (but only in swing states that went for Biden, even if other Republicans on the ticket won), followed by seditious rioters...
View ArticleWe, the people, deserve better from our legislators.
It would be extraordinary if the members of the United States House of Representatives and the Senate took their responsibility to serve the American people seriously. If they were serving the people,...
View ArticleIf I wake up one morning believing what Marjorie Taylor Greene believes.
If I wake up one morning believing …the 2018 California “Camp Fire” was started by a laser beam fired from space; …the Parkland and Sandy Hook school shootings were “false flag” planned shooting...
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Diversity and empathy.
There’s been a lot of talk about diversity lately. I think this is a very good thing. The population of the United States is changing, and we all need to adjust to these changes. We’re not still...
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There’s diversity in my whiteness.
When I was in the fourth grade, my teacher asked us to find out about our ancestors. I don’t know if I didn’t ask my parents or if they didn’t answer, but I said I was Italian. I’m not. Names &...
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Confirming ancestors: Am I really descended from these people?
Trying to climb my family tree. While doing genealogical research, it can be difficult to know with certainty whether a person you believe to be your ancestor actually is. Here are just a few of the...
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Joann Wilder Shoaf, Chapter 1.
Introduction One of my two favorite nieces mentioned to me that she knew very little about her grandparents. I decided it was my auntly responsibility to introduce them to their paternal grandparents...
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1949: Remembering Mill Mountain before the star.
In my last post I wrote about my mother’s life from her birth as Joann Wilder Shoaf in 1933 to her graduation from Jefferson High School in 1950. Imagine my horror when I realized that I had forgotten...
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Joann Wilder Shoaf, Chapter 2.
This is part two of the introduction I’m making for my two favorite nieces ro their paternal grandmother, Joann Wilder Shoaf. To read the story from the beginning, visit: Chapter 1: From birth through...
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Nursing in a COVID ICU.
The following was written and posted on Facebook by my favorite youngest niece, Ally Lim, RN, BSN, of Moneta, Virginia, who is a traveling nurse currently working in a COVID ICU in San Francisco....
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