[This post is part of the 52 weeks of personal genealogy and history series…week 44: Elementary School] I started school in 1969. See how pathetic I looked in kindergarten? I didn’t trust the photographer at all! When I started school, our neighborhood was bustling. Their were kids popping out of everywhere. We had two…
Category: About Me
The Moment I Knew
The Armchair Genealogist posted today about the Moment She Knew…she was hooked on genealogy. She asked blogger to write about their own revelation, so here I am. One day back in 1989, we went to visit my Grandma at the convalescent home. As always she was demanding and bossy. I sat back and took in…
Remembering the Oakland Hills Firestorm
I think one of the scariest disasters that happened during my life within the region I live in was the Oakland Hills Firestorm of 1991. I can still remember the events as if they happened recently. I remember that my sister, mom, and I were out shopping. We were driving somewhere near San Leandro and…
Wordless Wednesday: Dressed Up For Winter
This is me, ca 1966. San Francisco Bay Area not Nome, Alaska.
Treasure Chest Thursday: K Chin Prints
Last year when I was packing stuff up to move I came across these lithographs: The prints are very colorful. All of them have the name K. Chin on them somewhere. (You can see a little bit of the name in the bottom left hand corner of the tiger.) The prints are probably from the…