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Last year, I wrote a story for my mother for Christmas. “The Lantern Hanger’s Wife” is about our patriot ancestors, John and Sarah Pulling, who participated in the Boston tea party and hung the lanterns for Paul Revere in Boston’s old North Church. It is a story celebrating the tangled stories of genealogy, a family’s sacrifice […]
A disclaimer about the photos in this post: I took them in 2006 and had to size down the files. This messes with the watermarks a bit, but they are nonetheless intact and witness to my adventures in England. Enjoy. Ten years ago, I boarded a plane to leave for England for the first time. I […]
On April 26, 2016, Zion Church in Lincoln, Nebraska experienced a fire for the second time. It brought back memories, and with them the bittersweet reminder that anything and everything we build on this Earth is impermanent despite our best efforts. Our first fire was in June 2007. Zion Church was situated at 9th and […]