Posted by Administrator on September 28, 2010 in
Epiphanies,
Relationships,
Telling Your Stories
“If you will be my friend I’ll introduce you to your cousins THIS side of the Mississippi,” I recently wrote to a much younger cousin in a facebook friend request. I doubt Brad can remember much about me but I thought he should get to know his cousins, many of them his age. He grew [...]
Tags: Creative Memories, documenting family history, facebook friend request, family tree, family trees, scrapbooking, scrapbooking retreats
Posted by Administrator on April 17, 2009 in
Epiphanies,
Mission Trips,
Ukraine
Two impoverished boys born a world apart: Fred, a native Mississippian was an American soldier in Germany at the same time Nikolai was imprisoned as a Russian soldier. Unwittingly their lives would be woven together for a lifetime and how much so would be revealed more than sixty years later. The Weaver’s hands unseen by [...]
Posted by Administrator on September 1, 2008 in
Epiphanies
I remember the first time it happened. It was my birthday and the first telephone call of the day wasn’t from my parents. Though the latter part of August was the end of summer the hot afternoon sun baked the landscape and my own heart was beginning to thirst and still no call. I pacified [...]
Tags: dementia, forgotten birthday, God never forgets nor forsakes, mother forgot me