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Book of Me – Prompt 21: Hobbies
The Book of Me – Written by You is a weekly blog prompt created by Julie Goucher of the blog Angler’s Rest. This is a fifteen month writing project to highlight my life so that I will have something to...
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A New Project
I have to admit it; I haven’t been too focused on the blog lately. I am still committed to posting all my grandparents’ World War II letters though. I have transcribed and published around 500 which...
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The Book: Progress Report – May 23, 2014
I am going to try to write a fairly regular progress report to keep myself motivated while writing the Jegerlehner history. So here is this week’s report: I have finished the basic outline of the...
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The Book: Progress Report – May 30, 2014
I feel like I did a lot of work this week, and I didn’t get to work on things as much as I wanted to. I read a great article from Vita Brevis (one of the blogs of AmericanAncestors.org and the New...
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The Book: Progress Report – June 6, 2014
This week the manuscript has expanded to 45 pages. There are currently 21,917 words and 142 footnotes. I am not sure I have ever written anything this long before. I am not counting the 89 page book...
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The Book: Progress Report – June 21, 2014
I know I haven’t written about my book progress for the last two weeks. Two major events precluded my writing a post about my progress. During the first week, I was chaperoning my Girl Scout troop to...
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The Book: Progress Report – July 27, 2014
I haven’t done a book update in a month, mostly because I haven’t done a thing on either book. I’ve been out of town with my children, exploring the northeastern part of the country. I was able to...
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The Book: Progess Report – August 2, 2014
This week was my first full week back to work at my day job. Wow! My vacation is truly over. Late summer and early fall are my busy season. I will be madly working on state mandated testing until the...
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The Book: Progress Report – August 9, 2014
Since last week I feel like I have done a huge amount of work on the book. I had already been thinking of using CreateSpace, Amazon’s printing company, to publish the book. This is a print on demand...
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The Book: Progress Report – August 16
This week in book land I feel like have accomplished a lot but I know I still have a small mountain to climb. After reading some more of the tutorials on the book publishing site, I realized I needed...
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The Book: Progress report – August 23
This week went rather slowly, and I feel like I did not accomplish much at all. My eldest child had her first full week of school so we are working on getting back into our daily routine. Plus three...
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The Book: Progress report – September 6
It has been two weeks since my last progress report, and sadly, I have very little to report. I haven’t been able to do a thing on the book. Work and family have taken every spare minute. Oh, and my...
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Progress – September 27th
Well, this update is not about the book because I am on book hiatus until the end of October. [Insert crying face emoticon here] I have too many other projects on the stove cooking at the moment to...
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Book Update – Book Giveaway!
The book will officially be published on March 3rd so I am counting down the days until it’s release. What I’m doing: Now that the proof has arrived I have to go over it to make sure the manuscript...
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Weekly Update – March 15, 2015
I thought I would try writing about some events, happenings, accomplishments, etc., that are occurring in my little portion of the genealogy world this week. In the world of Dear Mother, Love Daddy:...
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Monthly Update – May 14, 2015
Dear Mother, Love Daddy I have not set up a book giveaway this month so I am trying something new. I figured out how to offer discounts directly through the Create Space publishing website. For a...
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Monthly Update – March 2016
It is hard to believe that March is almost over. I have so much I am trying to accomplish right now. I am currently on spring break from school, and I am hoping to get a long list of things done by the...
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