I don't get home often enough.  Once a year, usually, sometimes twice.

My niece is growing like a weed!  I get pictures, sure, but it's still a shock to see in person just how much she's grown between visits.  My grandmother will be 96 years old next month.  She's been in a nursing home for several years now as she cannot care for herself and ( Read more... )

My Greataunt Violet has passed on.  She lived a long and happy, if oftentimes hard life, raising her four children in rural Pennsylvania.  In addition to caring for her own children, she also did what she could to help look after some her sister's six children (my father and his siblings) when her sister and brother-in-law divorced and couldn't ( Read more... )