This post has nothing to do with Vagina, Boobs, and Poop. I am doing a post on crazy things my mother has said and done and wanted to see if this garnered interest. Mother is sensitive about her age and height, so I can’t mention the fact that she is past eighty, and “not tall,” but besides that, has said and done some interesting things. (Links to part 1-11 below) Continue reading
Month: February 2015
My Parents’ Marriage (from Kathleen’s Memoirs of The Great Depression)
The top picture is of Mary Elizabeth Perkins about the time she married. The second is of Mary Elizabeth and Roscoe Holdaway when they were in their late sixties or early seventies. The third picture is of the Holdaway Homestead in Red River County Texas. The young blond man in the center with the bicycle was Roscoe. He was eighteen at the time this was taken. He was twenty-eight and Mary Elizabeth twenty-two at the time of their marriage. They probably didn’t expect to have children since their first child wasn’t born for six years. This is the story of their courtship and marriage from the memoirs of their daughter Kathleen. Continue reading
Vintage Photos of Unknown People
I am haunted by both these vintage photos of people unknown to me. The woman is possibly distant family. The photograph of the sad man and children was found at an estate sale. I think they are calling out for a story.
Introduce Yourself Here To Other Bloggers And Grow Your Audience!
Reblogged from A Momma’s View. Check out this wonderful opportunity from The Journal.
So I’d been thinking since I began 11 months ago about how I could help other bloggers grow their audience as quickly as I did. Y’all know how passionate I am about making a proper living from blogging already.
I started doing Blogging Tips and then I wanted to offer online events that could help boost folks’ audiences. I had quite a few in mind but a busy schedule and some tough periods put paid to getting them up and running last year. But now…here is the first!Feel free to use this post to say hi and introduce yourself to other bloggers. Add links to your books, your poems, your enterprises.
Promote Yourself!
Tell folks who you are and what you blog about so people will want to check you out. Also go say hi to others. It is all key to growing your audience.
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Grieving Beauty
This lovely photogragh, taken in 1911, is of unknown family members of my Cousin Kathleen Perkins of Grayson County, Virginia She had no information about the the beautiful grieving young woman. The name on the tombstone is Rhudy and date of birth 1803. I plan to have this photograph restored and appropriately framed. Cousin Continue reading
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