Family History

Miss C.’s Poetry Voice

I had the same teacher, Miss C., for both the third and fifth grades. She wasn’t my favorite teacher —

I spend a lot of time working with old photographs, at home and at work, but I have recently started

I am reading Marcus Samuelsson’s memoir, “Yes, Chef.” I checked it out of the library’s ebook collection because I have

In January, 1944, my parents got married in a simple ceremony in the rectory of St. Peter’s Church in Worcester,

I’ve always loved my father’s bookplate, neatly pasted into his favorite books, signed with a fountain pen and black ink.

My mother was a wonderful woman: intelligent, kind and loving. She loved her husband and three children dearly, and when

The celebration of Queen Elizabeth’s Diamond Jubilee reminds me of something my Scottish grandmother once shared with me. I asked

January 1, 2012 Elizabeth Thomsen 0 Comments

This photograph has been around for as long as I can remember. When I was a child, it was in

I’ve been following the Great Depression Cooking series on YouTube for years, not so much for the recipes as for

I took this photograph of the Keniston Square marker on Cabot Street in Beverly, Massachusetts, last spring, and posted it