I’m participating in Amy Johnson-Crow’s 52 Ancestors Challenge. This is Week # 18 and the writing prompt is Where There’s a Will. Now, I suppose there are quite a few ways of thinking of this… For example, a will can be referring to the legal document that expresses your wishes when you pass or it…
I’m participating in Amy Johnson-Crow’s 52 Ancestors Challenge. This is week # 17. The writing prompt is land. As always, Amy assures is that these prompts are up for interpretation so here goes…When I think of land, the first thing (funny enough) that popped in to my head was the Woody Guthrie song “This Land…
Well, since I can’t seem to think of anything for the writing prompt of air, I’ll go with something that rhymes with air – Claire. It’s also a perfect week because yesterday, April 13th would have been Grammie’s 100th Birthday!! She was born in New York City 100 years ago. Claire Joan Lippman Perry 1920-2006…
Man alive! Some of these writing prompts are proving difficult for me. I don’t think I’ve come across any stories of fire in our family history. I mean our kitchen caught on fire when we were kids thanks to a baby-sitter trying to make french fries in Crisco on the stovetop…but that hardly relates to…
This week the writing prompt for Amy-Johnson Crow’s 52 Ancestors Challenge is Water. The interpretation of that prompt is up to us so I’m getting creative with my choice this week. Actually, I suppose it was my Grandmother, Margaret Hope Newitt Apps (who we called Grandma Rocks) who was the creative one! Over her lifetime…
