ETHNIC

I woke up this past Sunday morning to tragic news that my Grandmother's house was on fire in Southwestern Pennsylvania. Thankfully, she and my mother escaped with minor injuries. Although her possessions may have been lost, my 89 year old...

A brief interlude from a friend in Korea:

Yesterday was a holiday here b/c 3rd grade high school students took the university entrance exam all across the country (I guess like they do in Jan. in Japan).

Get this – during the Korean listening and English listening portions of the exam (which all happened at the same time in the whole country), planes were not allowed to fly in or out of the airports!!

They actually stop air traffic during those times on that particular day!

And if students are going to be late to the place where they take the test, they can get a police escort to the test site!

I love the idea that massive hulks of metal cease to be hurled through the sky, all so the children might focus uninterrupted.

Beautiful.

Here's another page I created from images people forwarded to me through e-mail. I printed these images using my home computer printer, maybe not the most archival materials, but will have to do. After I complete this album I plan...

This is the first in a series of posts where I will share with you my latest scrapbook project to preserve my family memories about an historical United States Presidential election. Here's the first page that I made. I decided...

Preservation question from reader "GINA" I literally started scrapping as a 14 year old when I would collect photos of popular groups and articles and save them in pages of albums labeled " scrap book". The pages have aged and...

A future President and Vice President of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA! Prayers have been answered, but more prayer is still necessary. I tried to make this a day my kids will never forget by documenting it as much as...

Although I didn't vote in the election for John F. Kennedy, I'm glad my husband picked up these autographed photogrpahs of John F. and Jackie Kennedy at an estate auction over 10 years ago. I can interview both of our...

I?d like to use this particular cultural tradition to answer a question that I?m frequently asked, ?How can you reconcile your Christian beliefs with some of the rituals and traditions of other cultures?? My response: Just because I educate myself...

My daughter Leah is having Vision problems, she has near perfect eyesight, but a vision problem. Dealing with this situation over the last couple of weeks has been an eye opening experience for me. I can relate what we are...