Shelley's House

Today would have been my Dad's 103rd birthday, were such a thing even possible. Of course it is possible for a human to live to the age ...

Today would have been my Dad's 102nd birthday, not that he ever would have expected to reach that age. He was born in 1918, in the midst...

I just realised I don't think about my Dad so much as I once did, which makes me sad. It also seems rather odd since I work at finding h...

Today my Dad's birth mother, Mary, would have been ... 139!  It sounds crazy to write, but she was 39 when she had him, he was 38 when I...

Goodness, my Dad would have been 100 years old today! I'm fairly certain he wouldn't have enjoyed it much. He always made it clear t...

Anyone who has followed the history of my Dad's adoption story knows that someone gave me a photo of a ledger from the state orphanage i...

Today would have been my Dad's 99th birthday. My fascination with detecting h is past has been one of several reasons I've not been ...

Several people have remarked to me (IRL) that I've not written much here lately. I always say I've not quit, I just have other stuff...

Today is my Dad's birthday - he would have been 97. I can't really imagine him at that age, he was so poorly at 70. In trying to thi...

I'm sure I've mentioned at some point that I have over a hundred letters that my Mom wrote to my Dad during the first year of their ...

Today is my Dad's birthday, he would have been 96. I've been very busy this week with my genealogy, having discovered a new cousi...

Yet another year has rolled around and it's the day for me to remember my Dad.  Not that I forget him for long in between birthdays. ...

My Dad was pretty reliable about Christmas presents:  while he and Mom were together he gave her money and let her do it!  After they split...

I'm fortunate enough to still have my Dad's high school year book, from 1933.  From it, I know that in 1933 he and my Grandparents l...