You may have wondered what the heck happened to me the last couple of months. I’ve wondered the same thing myself at times. I was in the process of packing up a lifetime of memories, mine and my mom’s. She passed away last September and the home we shared together was being sold. This leads…
Tag: Childhood Memories
The Golden State Warriors Historic 73 Wins in a Season Brings Back Sports Memories
The Golden State Warriors did something in 2016 that no other team in NBA history had done before. They won 73 games in one season. They had to surpass the powerful Chicago Bulls teams of the 1990s to do so. They did it in style. Breaking the record on the very last day of the…
52 Ancestors Week 19: Step on the Gas
This week’s theme in the 52 Ancestors challenge is “There’s a Way”. I’d like to relay a funny story that my grandmother told me from her childhood. Anna was the third child of Harry Jackson and Marguerite “Margaret” (Jones) Jackson. She was a bit of handful as a child, getting herself and her friends into…
SNGF: When I Was Young Part 2
This is part 2 of Alona’s meme, When I Was Young, as presented as part of Randy Seaver’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun weekly theme. Q6: When you were young, do you remember what it was that you wanted to grow up to be? I had two different dreams: teacher and singer. Later, I wanted to…
SNGF: When I Was Young Part 1
I’m playing a bit of catch up here. Randy Seaver’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun from a couple of weeks ago used Alona’s meme “Where I was Young”. This is the first part of that meme. 1) Do you (or your parents) have any memorabilia from when you were a baby? (ie. baby book, lock of…