This is me sometime around 1969. I’m wearing the pajamas that my Grandma Lassalle made for me for Christmas. She made all her Grandkids two sets of pajamas every year. The doll was what Santa left under the tree for me. She was called Tippy Toes, a cousin to Tippy Tumbles I am pretty sure. …
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Happy Thanksgiving!
Today is the day we all give thanks for what we have. I’m thankful for getting through the difficult year after my Dad’s death. This will be our second Thanksgiving since he died and it is definitely a lot easier this time around. I would like to give thanks for the online genealogy community who…
My Elementary School Seemed So Big
[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…
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…