Sorry for the short post this week. It’s Girl Scout cookie season and I’ve got two daughters selling cookies. One of them is in a travel troop, so we’ve been busy! What’s a travel troop? Glad you asked (you did ask, didn’t you?). Normally when a Girl Scout sells cookies, a portion goes to her Read More
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Covering The Songs from The Greatest Showman
Growing up with musical parents as I did, it’s probably not surprising that I enjoy musicals. Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein were regular musical fixtures in my home, as were Stephen Sondheim, W. S. Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, Alan Lerner, and Frederick Loewe.
Genealogy Profile: Johann Carl Müller, My Great-Grandfather
Johann Carl Müller or John Charles Mueller is my paternal great-grandfather. The fifth of eight children born to Johann Heinrich Müller and Susanna Gertrude Wenzel, I believe he was the first of their children to immigrate to the United States.
I’m Still Figuring Out What to Write About, But I Don’t Have Writer’s Block
Sigh. Again with the words. I’ve got a directory in my Writing folder titled Drafts and Ideas. It’s got almost eighty different files, all blog posts that I thought would be interesting. Eighty times I said, “That would be a good blog post,” or “That’s pretty interesting. I wonder if I could get a blog Read More