After An Educator's Journey

Out of the classroom & into the universe

Once upon a time, I taught 2nd, 3rd, and 4th graders. Now I’m retired and working on new ventures.

I taught second, third and fourth graders. Teaching was my passion and joy for 30 years. And it didn’t hurt that they called me “mom” sometimes.

Tag: geneaology

Connections

May 31, 2012

Today would have been my paternal grandmother’s 129th birthday; she was born in High Falls, New York on May 31, 1883. I do not know much about my grandmother; she died in 1927 when my father was just 9 years old. Yet I sometimes feel a connection. In addition to carrying my grandmother’s name, Elizabeth,…
Genealogy Connections

March 16, 2012

I was sucked in almost the very minute we – Adrien and I – went to a talk at the New England Genealogy and History Society’s Library on Newbury Street in Boston. For a while, I would go in to Boston almost weekly and, while Adrien poured over the Drouin Index for his French Canadian…