Parentage: Part 4

Parentage: Part 4

In my last "Parentage" installment my cowboy great-grandpa met three wayward men on his migration from England to Canada. (The wayward part is my embellishment.) We also found out that these three brothers would become his brother's-in-law! Yeehaw! Here's where I started getting confused by the way this story was written. One moment I was [...]

Parentage: Part 3

Parentage: Part 3

It's been some time since I continued my "Parentage" posts! Nice hair, right!? Better than mine. (smirk) In the above image are my great-grandpa's sisters. (Nellie, Maud and Rose.) Do you give much thought to family history? I enjoy uncovering or discovering things. Unfortunately, only one side of my family showed any interest in keeping [...]

The Pluck of the Draw

The Pluck of the Draw

He came up short again. He supposed it was his lot in life. Consistently being low man on the totem pole isn't easy, but he showed courage in the face of adversity. You win some and you lose some, right? So it would have been if the Odds weren't always stacked against him. The Odds [...]