With my love of family stories, personal history, and personal material culture it is ironic that I see my Family Tree pruning itself into oblivion. My daughter is the last women of my maternal line. She is so much like me in many ways. I always said until I was in my early 30s that […]
Poetry and Ritual House Cleaning
I am so very fortunate to have inadvertently stumbled into the closing ritual I apparently needed.
Closure Is Not Comfort
I recently reached closure in a family matter. A legacy matter. I did not think I would ever achieve any peace when it came to matters of my mother’s stuff, the unfortunate legacy of disquiet that settled, like the heavy dust and grime of neglect over long stretches of time, on the things left unsettled […]
Back Home Again in Indiana
Salvaging family memories from remnants of an abandoned home.
Research Essentials
When we, as women, want to create something, anything, we often feel we have to deal with what has come before, even more than men, who are trained to act as a reaction or in response to a command. There are personal paths we walk that sometimes require an examination of previous steps we have […]