MotherBedford

There are many times that we say things ~ words or phrases ~ that we don't realize had special or particular meanings to our ances...

This morning I looked out of my kitchen window, and there, on the ground ~ on a small patch of wet grass, cleared so that the dog would h...

I think that I'll take my broad ax and head out into the forest to cut down a tree. Oops! There's something wrong in that sent...

St. Patrick's Day is special to me ~ as it is to all Irish and descendants of the Irish who live either in the Irish Diaspora, or in ...

Nothing was taken for granted by our ancestors; they utilized what was at hand and economized as much as they could. There was an old joke ...

In another eight days it will have been 248 years (that's about 90,580 days, in case you're curious) since the Stamp Act was passe...

Okay, so it's 1872, and you are getting ready to go to the ball. You have your chemise on ~ oh come on now, you know that a chemise i...