Air traffic Control is easy until it gets hard. Then it gets very hard. The problem is, it can get very hard very easily. – Unknown There’s something just magical about flight. Period. – Graham Hawkes When one spends 34 years in an occupation as unique, challenging and wonderful as air traffic control, it never really […]
Happy Birthday Mom – A Love Letter
With long life will I satisfy him, and show him my salvation. – Psalms 91:16 And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. Genesis 6:3 I write a bit about my paternal DNA, the […]
The Kodiak – See You On The Other Side
“See you on the other side”. A closing salutation in an e-mail from a missionary anticipating my arrival in Indonesia. In the post My Journey Into Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) I mentioned touring their headquarters in Nampa, ID and attending an MAF event at the airport in Wichita. During both of these occasions I was introduced to the Quest Kodiak airplane being […]
A Journey Into Mission Aviation Fellowship
In June of 2016 on a return trip to Kansas from a family gathering in Moscow, ID, we took time to stop at the headquarters of Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) in Nampa, ID. We have been supporters of MAF for over 25 years, but my journey with this organization goes back much further. The Paternal […]
Wedding Anniversary Adventures – Forty Years!
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year. Paul Sweeney This month my husband and I will be married 40 years. When he asked me to marry him, we had planned a June wedding after his first year of ministry school at […]
Happy And Blessed Thanksgiving – Practicing Gratitude
“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.” ― Epicurus I am writing this several weeks before it will post. It has been a gloomy few days and even though I hate to admit it, my grumpy level […]
The Practicality, Mystery and Beauty of An Attic
“As the years pass, I keep thinking that our greatest lack today is attics. Modern homes never have them, with the result that young people live only in their own generation, feeling no intimate connection with the past. Their roots will go deeper if their homes have attics?” from “More Than Petticoats” – the chapter on […]
Finding Lost Family Members – Or Not….
Research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I’m doing – Wernher von Braun In a post about a circa 1907 family reunion on the Rightmeier homestead in Jewell County, Kansas, I mentioned a great great uncle, August, we had lost track of. A friend who has a gift for finding lost family on the Internet […]
How To Uncover Fake News – Discovering Family Lineage Secrets
Fake News? The thing that interests me most about family history is the gap between the things we think we know about our families and the realities. – Jeremy Hardy In a recent post about a circa 1907 family reunion on the Rightmeier homestead in Jewell County, Kansas, I mentioned a great great uncle, August, […]