Oh, Frank Phillips, You are My Geneology Crush

Y’all may remember my great joy yesterday at discovering Frank B. Phillips living with his in-laws.  And my goal was to discover his parents.  Barlow Phillips was no help.  But, my friends, cousin Van saved the day.  I managed to find a Van Phillips living in Michigan who was roughly the same age as my [...]

Mrs. Wigglebottom Confesses

Mrs. Wigglebottom has been tagged and I’m so tickled by the idea of my dog being tagged for a meme that I must instantly participate.
Here are six things about Mrs. Wigglebottom you probably didn’t know.
1.  Mrs. Wigglebottom has her own Myspace page, but she just uses the account to play some Mobsters game.
2.  Mrs. Wigglebottom [...]

Let’s Just Call It “White Music” and Drop the Pretense

Back when the new Hall of Fame was just a twinkling in a girl’s eye and there was no round-about and no naked dancing people, I was in the basement of the old Hall of Fame looking at rows upon rows of records, some ancient, and I asked “How do you, when you’re looking at, [...]

A Sign of Things to Come?

I admit, when I saw this over at Kleinheider’s, I had a moment where I imagined it was a post just for me, a little bon mot designed to exactly improve my day.

Come Forward, Gift Giver

So, there’s been this box by the front door for a couple of days and finally the Butcher says, “Are you going to open that or what?” and I’m all, “Open what?”
“That box.”
“What box?”
“I left it there so you’d know to open it.”
“Oh, well, I never come over here so I just now saw it.”
“That’s [...]

George Washington Heistand and Other Dead Relatives

My dad made me call my Uncle B. to find out more about the parts of the family he didn’t know about.  My goal, if it’s at all possible, is to trace back to my grandparents’ grandparents.  This leaves trying to discover who Marie Corcoran’s parents were on my mom’s side (Marie being my Grandpa [...]