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My Great Grandmother’s 100-Year-Old Cookbook Taught Me About Community

Recently I came across my great-grandmother’s handwritten cookbook.

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What My Bootlegging Grandfather Taught Me

Quiet and unassuming, Grandpa Popeye (as we called him after the cartoon), would pull his 1985 Cadillac up to the pine…

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100 Years of Frugal Living Lessons

Grandma Esther and Grandpa Sonny would have celebrated their 100th birthdays by 2021. Their frugal and full life has…

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My Rich Uncle Was a 21st Century Ebenezer Scrooge

He died suddenly a year ago, and there are so many questions.

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My Grandparent’s Rules For Surviving Hard Times

Normal life is never coming back. But we can get through it, by learning from the past.

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My Grandfather Witnessed a UFO in 1945

For 80 years, UFO and alien life has been covered up.

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Into The Woods

As a child, I always had my head in the clouds, very imaginative. Adults would tell me to come back down to earth all…

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Ghosts Are Real, Even If You Don’t Believe In Them

Over 20 years ago, we lived in an apartment near Lake Erie. The view was breathtaking from our window, even in the…

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The Victorian Ghost Lady on The Railroad Tracks

It was 1994 and it was a strange summer. I had just graduated high school and was bored. This was before I had a…

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