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“Ignorance is no excuse when we have neglected to learn what we are obliged to know.” ~ St. Ambrose
Continue reading →Ashleigh
Ashleigh is a septuagenarian wife, mother, and grandmother whose life spans a tapestry of names, stories, and roles. Her interests include genealogy, writing, reading, and gaming—each offering its own trail of breadcrumbs to the past and threads to the future. Though called by many names over the years, she responds most favorably and reliably to Ashleigh or Nonna.
Give Komen the Pink Slip: Five Ways to Support Women's Health for All – News – GOOD
Give Komen the Pink Slip: Five Ways to Support Women’s Health for All – News – GOOD Some alternative choices for support the fight against breast cancer
Continue reading →We Need Your Support – Alison Leigh Lilly
We Need Your Support – Alison Leigh Lilly My husband has been in negotiations with his ex-wife informally since October, and formally (read: with lawyers) for two months trying to work out a child custody arrangement that will let him see the kids after we’ve moved. We originally hoped for … Continue reading →
Anglo-Celtic Connections: Vote now for your favourite rock star genealogists
Anglo-Celtic Connections: Vote now for your favourite rock star genealogists Signal boosting for the genealogy readers.
Continue reading →Man Who Catalogued Cemetery Given Highest Geneology Award – Middletown, CT Patch
Man Who Catalogued Cemetery Given Highest Geneology Award – Middletown, CT Patch As a genealogist, records such as these are invaluable in documenting any number of facts about the people you are researching. I know that over the years I have been researching my family, records such as these have … Continue reading →
Witchcraft and Disability – Witch School International
Witchcraft and Disability – Witch School International Linking to boost this along.
Continue reading →National Cultural Appropriation Day, November edition
Hey, here’s a suggestion: you want to celebrate Thanksgiving? Go for it. Find things to be thankful for and celebrate those things. Don’t let anyone harsh your mellow over it. I really want to find a painting of First Americans meeting European Invaders and caption it “when father’s family met … Continue reading →
Thanksgiving Prayer William S Burroughs
Uploaded by arribaradio on May 7, 2009 Thanksgiving Day, Nov 28,1986 first appeared in the chapbook Tornado Alley, with illustrations by S. Clay Wilson. Gus Van Sant then made a short film of Burroughs reading the text.This poem resonates today as exposing what has gone horribly wrong in the USA, … Continue reading →
53! 99! 1! Hype! er, Hike!
Conservatives launch “We are the 53 percent” to criticize 99 percenters – The Washington Post So, as some of you have noticed, there is a new Tumblr called “We are the 53 percent” (I’ve reblogged a couple of their posts over on my Tumblr – warning, posts there are OFTEN NOT … Continue reading →
Say what?
Noted Elsewhere as a response to someone’s rebuttal argument about something that I’m quite certain was positively earth-shattering in its importance, was this gem: “Wait, what’s that? None of these claims can be supported by actual facts and evidence, or even make sense? WELL FUQ YOU, THIS IS MY OPINION, … Continue reading →