Unshoveling the Past

 Retirement 101   (aka Wash, Rinse, Repeat) 6/14/24: (Note: I just found this draft post, not realizing it wasn't published almost 4 yea...

  I am officially retired!! 

I haven't posted in a long while, as I've been keeping very busy having fun with all my extra-curricular activities. However I want...

Through my ancestral research, I've reconnected with my mother's cousin Jane, who is my closest living connection to the Voegtly...

In the interest of posting more regularly, I have about 30 saved drafts, some years old, that I am sifting through. For the ones that are ...

It's days like this when I start with 2 big cups of coffee laced with espresso. Luckily, since my schedule is flexible, on ...

Okay, pretty darn cute, right? And my life has changed for sure, for the better. But as my mother could have predicted, it hasn't be...

It's been so long since I've posted anything it feels foreign to me to write in this space. I'd like to be able to get back to ...

  I was saddened to hear  about the death of Yogi Berra. He was a NY baseball icon from another era. Though I couldn't sha...

I recently made a trip to Chicago for business purposes. Since one quarter of my family tree stems from Chicago, I decided to take a l...