Photo by Sixteen Miles Out on Unsplash I haven’t blogged in a while. For two years, I put this blog on private as I’d no longer had the willpower to push out blog posts the way that I did six years ago. I write a little more about this in my blog post Why Do You Do… ? Recently, I have revamped my blog. I have unpublished posts that didn’t reflect who I was then or who I am now, or those that felt too personal to share ‘out there’. I also removed posts I wrote just for the sake of posting content and main taining an audience, even when inauthentic to me. It means more to me that others feel the value and quality of what I share rather than the quantity. I am not sure how often I will post, all I know is when the inspiration and curiosity strike, that’s when it will occur. My intention for this blog is to lead with more spontaneity than usual, structured content, along with transparency, authenticity, and vulnerability to whatever degree feels right. My inte...
Hey boys and girls, it's time for more genealogy fun. Here is your assignment, should you decide to accept it (you ARE reading this, so I assume that you really want to play along - cue the Mission Impossible music!): 1) Larry Smith invented six-word memoirs (see https://www.sixwordmemoirs.com/ ). 2) How do you want to be remembered? What is most important to you? What six-word memoirs would you write? 3) Write at least one, on any subject, and the sky is no limit. 4) Tell us about your six word memoir(s) in your own blog post, in a comment to this blog post of mine, or in a comment on Twitter or Facebook in response to this post. To do this challenge, I tried to answer the question Randy gave: How do you want to be remembered? To be honest, I found it difficult to answer this because I was thinking about how I wanted other people see me — and that felt weird to me. But discussing it about w...