Babyausstattung

Last summer I found out that my husband’s grandmother did not have any kind of life history recorded. She does not have any journals and pictures are scarce. She is the last living grandparent on either side and the thought of my children not knowing her or even being able […]

Japanese gardens are famous all over the world for their serenity and beauty. One of the main concepts in these gardens is to instill a feeling of beauty in the person viewing the garden. Another is to recreate nature in miniature. Historically, Japan adopted their formal gardening style from China […]

A father daughter bond or connection is invaluable and cannot be replaced with any value or denomination on earth. We live in a busy ecosystem where the father daughter pair does not have time to connect and heal their relationship. The fathers being bread earners of the family have to […]

The other day, a friend told me he was sick of hearing about genealogy, especially the part where people were discovering that they were related to the rich and famous. Ironically, I can understand how he felt. I still remember being a little boy and having my grandfather show me […]

Here’s a slightly uncomfortable belief: dads matter because men are different from women. Put differently, a father doesn’t mother-and vice versa of course! I’ve found that friends and neighbors sometimes get uneasy when I share that observation. There are some obvious reasons for that-so much of our recent gender history […]

In 1985, my high school journalism instructor encouraged me to take the time to research the statistics and overall impact of absentee fatherhood. She knew that I had never met my father and that I was struggling to come to grips with the matter. She had a lot of faith […]