Six years have gone by since I last felt the urge to write a blog entry, but as has often been the case in the past, I’m hearing the call from what seems like a bit of encouraging synchronicity in the midst of adversity. Last weekend, Gary and I had our first at-home visit with […]
My friends and colleagues Jennifer Joslin and Laura Pasquini have issued the challenge: Beginning July 29, post one photo each day to share #HowISpentMySummer. It can be from this summer, a throwback summer memory, or just something you wished to do this summer. Here’s the list: July 29 Take a road trip July 30 Watch […]
With the new season of “Who Do You Think You Are?” starting, my TV is set on record, and it’s been capturing some of the repeats as well, several of which I had not seen the first time around. Yesterday, I watched Sarah Jessica Parker’s story, in which she discovered that one of her ancestors […]
I was reminded by an ad for the coming season opener of “Who Do You Think You Are?” that I had not yet followed up on my last post, as promised, with a look at the French Canadian branch of my family tree. My mother’s maiden name is Delpha, and the first record we have […]
We have just returned from a wonderful cruise that took us to areas of Nova Scotia and Quebec from which my maternal ancestors hailed, and, not surprisingly, that has me thinking about these folks. Unfortunately, we don’t know even a fraction as much about my Mom’s roots as we do about my Dad’s, but thanks […]
In my last post, I said that we would soon be leaving on a 4-generation cruise in honor of my Dad’s 80th birthday. That grand adventure begins today! Mom and Dad should be headed to Boston as I write, and Gary, Heather, Sean and I will be off this afternoon to Kansas City, for an […]
It’s a big day for all of us connected with the Sherburne family, for today we mark the 80th birthday of our patriarch, Joel Bradford Sherburne – my dad. Born on June 7, 1934, in Rutland, Vermont, Dad was named “Joel” for a great-uncle and “Bradford” for Pilgrim ancestor Gov. William Bradford of Plymouth. His […]
MSNBC is my channel of choice for news watching (<3 Rachel Maddow!), and although most of what I watch is recorded to allow for skipping through the commercials (and because, Lark that I am, I am often asleep before the show airs!), I do pause pretty much once a day for a look at their […]
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” ~Maya Angelou I remember so clearly when this quote struck me in a life-changing way. It was in the summer of 2005. I had recently joined the NACADA Executive Office […]
One of my all-time favorite movie scenes takes place between Helen Hunt and Jack Nicholson in the 1997 romantic comedy, As Good as it Gets. In the film, Hunt and Nicholson (who both received Oscars for their performances) humorously and poignantly portray our deep need for genuine human connection and inspiration in the midst of […]
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