Family

April 18, 2008

This blog does have a deep end :-)

Last year, before a major surgery, I sat down and wrote eighteen things that I had learned with the idea of posting it on my blog. I just found the piece of paper last week. Here’s what I wrote: Time does not heal all wounds, or doesn’t heal them in a timely manner. Just let it Continue reading

Blogging, Family, Friends, Lists

2007, Accentuate the Positive, annoying, best interests, bitch, blog, boss, calories, cleaning, cut ties, education, effort, eighteen, Eliminate the Negative, experience, failures, Family, fix, food, found, Friends, fun, good, impressions, indelible, intregity, karma, kin, late, lessons, life, life lessons, loved ones, morality, nice, no, nope, ok, patterns, Perry Como, priorities, procrastination, responsibility, right, simple, slack, song, stop, surgery, time, tools, traffic, true, uncommunicative, wasting time, wounds
January 23, 2008

In shock

I can’t believe that Heath Ledger is dead. I remember the first time that I saw him in Roar. I haven’t been this shocked since River Phoenix died. My prayers go out to his friends and family, especially Michelle Williams, and their daughter. May he rest in peace. Continue reading

death, Movies/TV

Family, Friends, Heath Ledger, Michelle Williams, prayers, River Phoenix, Roar
January 8, 2008

A pillow’s journey

Note: I’ve been working on this one for a while, I hope you enjoy the story. Lets flashback to the year 1983… My Mom had just found out that she was pregnant, and my world suddenly became a very exciting place. I was staying for a few days with my Grandmother, completely underfoot, and a Continue reading

Crafts, Family, Genealogy

anniversary, childhood, cross stitch, Family, Gram, lessons, Matt, memories, Mom, needlepoint, pillow

About Me

Charleen Mullenweg is a professional genealogist and copyeditor* based in Austin, TX and frequently found with her family in San Francisco, Houston, and around the world at genealogy and WordPress events. This is her periodically updated blog, and one of the first WordPress sites in the world!

President Texas Society Colonial Dames Seventeenth Century
National Credentials Chairman, Colonial Dames Seventeenth Century
Embassy Chapter Treasurer, Colonial Dames Seventeenth Century
Oliver Hazard Perry Chapter Registrar, US Daughters of 1812
Elizabeth Winslow Colony President, National Society New England Women

* Valid spelling according to Chicago Manual of Style.

Family

This blog does have a deep end :-)

In shock

A pillow’s journey