81,000 words and we are beginning to make sense of it all…

by | Sep 15, 2009 | Journal

It’s been very hard to keep my focus and my momentum due to circumstances you all know, but I think I am over the hump and still making sense. I’ll of course do a running rewrite to be sure everything makes the sense I think it does, but I think I am on...

working on CC and the swine flu…maybe

by | Sep 10, 2009 | Journal

It’s not going to be too hard, actually—once I learn to tie pages together. We now have the print color straightened out. If the size is still too small, it’s CSS and you should be able to scale it up, but if not, tell me and I’ll fix it from...

Nostradamus and nonsense…

by | Sep 9, 2009 | Journal

Oh, you’re going to hear  a lot of it approaching 2012. And I just saw one of the most atrocious pieces of reporting on the History Channel: they ought to be ashamed of themselves. a. Ever actually read Nostradamus? He lived during the Black Death and right next...

a new perspective on emigrations and other mass movements…

by | Sep 8, 2009 | Journal

You learn things chasing ancestors..things that aren’t in the history books, nor quite spelled out in anthropology texts. American kids hear a lot of Pilgrims seeking religous freedom in the Colonies, and not a great deal about the English Civil War, phase 1 and...

76048, and FINALLY! I had a great day writing.

by | Sep 7, 2009 | Journal

I’ve spent the last few days outlining to the end (after remembering what the end is, and relocating it); and simultaneously recovering the blown-up 72 generation, 40,000 person genealogy file, bit by painful bit… It’s funny. So much of the database...