Five Questions with… Brett Rogers
Five Questions With… is a weekly series on DMweblife highlighting Des Moines area bloggers and their blogs! This edition features Brett Rogers of BeatCanvas, an eclectic blog that showcases the many sides of its talented author!
1. What’s the focus of your blog?
My blog is personal – it’s a playground for me: for my art, sounds, [...]
Five Questions with… Lori Nordstrom
Five Questions With… is a weekly series on DMweblife highlighting Des Moines area bloggers and their blogs! This edition features Lori Nordstrom of Lori Nordstrom Photography, which showcases Lori’s ability to capture the true spirit of her photography subjects.
1. What’s the focus of your blog? (Or if you’d rather, What’s the main reason you began [...]
Follow the trail that follows you
Nick has become the victim of a company down-sizing - a situation which I certainly do hope evolves into a door opening rather than a door closing.
His post reminded me of something I wrote a few months ago about modern-day job-hunting. On another blog, I posted about the notion that your friends may not be the only [...]
Starting your genealogy project: a basic tip sheet
Earlier this week I promised a beginner’s tip sheet on launching a genealogy project. Remember that genealogy is both the search for documentation about family members as well as the gathering of recollections and stories. Larry Lehmer has much better advice than I on the latter, so I’ll focus on the basic tools of gathering [...]
More annoying Linguistic habits we should break
Another of my “linguistic habits” posts totalled some 32,346 words all on one topic (the movie “Dick”). So, I decided to shorten things up a bit. Here are a few more verbal short-cuts we should eliminate immediately from our daily discourse:
1. Use of the cliche, “as a rule of thumb.” This phrase originally referred to the “rule” (actually a British [...]
Were you part of the 70’s family audio trend?
I read Larry’s piece yesterday about family audio recordings and left a comment about the first “audio recording story” from my own experience that came to mind. I also remember a couple others:
My younger brother and I used to play with a large reel-to-reel recorder that belonged to my dad. One of our favorite activites [...]
Five Questions with… Michael Libbie
Five Questions With… is a new weekly series on DMweblife highlighting Des Moines area bloggers and their blogs! Our inaugural edition features Michael Libbie of Insight Advertising, Marketing & Communications.
1. What’s the main reason you began blogging?
We began blogging to better communicate with existing or potential clients. And, frankly, an attempt to become of interest [...]
Mustered in and conjured up
Every time we drive east on Euclid Avenue, on the bridge over the Des Moines River, we look down at the bike trail that winds along the river’s edge, expecting to see two tired Civil War veterans walking in tattered uniforms with their muskets. Why? Because one day a few years ago, my husband actually [...]
An Independence Patriot: General Hugh Mercer, 1726-1777
Happy Independence Day!
I considered writing a post full of celebratory sentiments, but decided to go another route instead. I mentioned previously that one of the many “distractions” in my genealogical journey has been the possibility that I may be a descendent of General Hugh Mercer, a Revolutionary War patriot. I thought it might be interesting to [...]
Family reunions mean great storytelling
Larry Lehmer notes that summer time is family reunion time which can lead to great stories. We never did family reunions when I was growing up – there just weren’t very many of us on either side since both my parents were only-children and my dad’s family was all in Pennsylvania. I do remember several [...]
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