The trip from Des Moines to Decorah usually takes about 3 1/2 hours. On Friday, I lingered along county roads on the way to...

I'm taking an online class over at JessicaSprague.com  about creating a family heritage scrapbook. I'm using Ancestry.com  to help f...

Yes, you are correct in thinking that I'm paying a disproportionate amount of attention to David lately on this blog. But the boy is a S...

Certain male members of my family accuse me of being a control freak. I prefer to think of myself as organized and wanting nothing but the b...

If you scroll waaaaaay back to the beginning of this blog, you will realize that I started it all two years ago this month. I blinked, and t...

Everyone remembers where they were when they heard the news of the attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. I was teaching a ...

There are some things you just have to get down on paper before life takes over and the memories are no longer fresh in your mind. This is w...