Most of us have heard of Ellis Island. Many of us who have traced our ancestry can lay claim to having descended from someone who came through Ellis Island on their journey to becoming an American citizen. Prior to 1892 immigration was controlled by individual states. On January 1, 1892 the Federal government opened an […]
I wrote a few years ago about a favorite show from my childhood – Gunsmoke. You can check out that post here: Anyone Remember Gunsmoke? My husband and I found a TV channel that has Gunsmoke reruns every day at noon. Several days a week we watch the show while eating lunch. By now most […]
Growing up in a Christian home, I learned to pray at a very young age. Prayer was an important part of my family’s life. Every meal we took turns thanking God for our food. As the “baby” in the family my first prayers over meal time were memorized prayers like God is great, God is […]
After moving to Michigan in October we have tried to do some sightseeing. However, cold weather is limiting that right now. Last weekend we had a beautiful sunshiny day so we took off on another adventure. We had no definite destination – just heading east and seeing what the day brought. Our first stop was […]
Posted this in 2015 but in this season of Lent – still worth thinking about. Grandma’s Ramblings AWE-FULL Great and holy God awe and reverence fear and trembling do no come easily to us for we are not Old Testament Jews or Moses or mystics or sensitive enough. Forgive us for slouching into Your presence […]
I remember all the news articles and the publicity given in 1982 when the first artificial heart was implanted in a patient in South Africa. The doctors behind this were portrayed as great men of science – as they should have been. However until I began doing research on black history I never knew that […]
This will be my 71st Christmas. In that time I have been given a lot of Christmas presents. Some I loved Some I pretended to like but really did not Some were expensive Some were not so expensive Some were store-bought Some were homemade Some shown that the giver had really put a lot of […]
In the book of Genesis we are told of the story of Hagar, the maid of Sarah, Abraham’s wife. When Sarah was not able to conceive, she gave her maid to Abraham in hopes that she would be able to bear a son who would then be considered Abraham and Sarah’s legal offspring. This was […]
Hard to believe it has been one year already. Exactly one year ago today my husband and I left our home in northern Illinois and traveled to the middle of Michigan to a new home. The metropolitan area we lived in known as the Quad Cities has a population of over 400,000. It includes five […]
I wrote a few years ago about a favorite show from my childhood – Gunsmoke. You can check out that post here: Anyone Remember Gunsmoke? My husband and I found a TV channel that has Gunsmoke reruns every day at noon. Several days a week we watch the show while eating lunch. By now most […]
When my husband and I married years ago he told me he used to paint. However, he only had one painting to show me. It was one he had given to his oldest daughter. I found it interesting because if you looked at one way it appears the people were walking forward side by side; […]
March 22 was a day I will never forget! My husband had fallen a few days before that, got a lump on his head. The lump went down after a couple of hours and he felt okay. Because of the coronavirus and all the conflicting reports we heard, he decided it did not require him […]
Those of you who have followed my blog for awhile know that my husband and I are avid Scrabble players. We are very competitive and have kept a record of our scores since 2008. I tell my story in: Confessions of a Scrabble Addict! We have been known to wake up at 4 am and, not […]
I remember all the news articles and the publicity given in 1982 when the first artificial heart was implanted in a patient in South Africa. The doctors behind this were portrayed as great men of science – as they should have been. However until I began doing research on black history I never knew that […]
