Ancestor Soup

On the northern coast of the Land of the Midnight Sun, in the village of Kjøllefjord, a school system was built up from nothing to a thrivin...

The pink Stetson Melmac bowl has been a part of our Thanksgiving tradition as far back as I can remember.  It belonged to my maternal gran...

The Civilian Conservation Corps, one of the most popular New Deal programs of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, offered jobs to unemployed yo...

There were a million reasons to skip stopping at the cemetery – we didn’t know where the grave was located.  It was a huge cemetery.  We had...

This … umm… “item” belonged to my grandmother, Lisa Hammer , who came to the United States from Norway in the 1950s.  I suspect it had so...

I can honestly say I’ve never worked so hard to photograph a cemetery.  While I was fairly sure the person I was looking for was not buried...

I spent some time this morning drinking a few cups of coffee and reading the latest issue of the “ Shades of the Departed ” online magazine ...