Another great writing teacher of mine, Susan Wheeler of the University of New Hampshire, had a favorite saying: "Beware of ideas." One...

It's my husband's fault, really. I was minding my own business and he was over there on his laptop doing genealogical research. He had...

On this Memorial Day, I’d like to give a shout out to the keepers of all the cemeteries of the world. My genealogical research had...

I made my way to the address I had learned from the 1910 U.S. Census, hoping to find clues to…well, I didn’t know what…where my maternal...

I've never been one for reading much non-fiction, especially ponderous tomes on subjects about which I know nothing. But, with a kernel...