Yes, I am still here. Yes, I am still a folklorist with a love of folk (type) music - contemporary, traditional, and all parts between. Ac...

As a genealogist, I'm often told,  by someone who told them, that an ancestor was a Native American. We talk about what was initially to...

  Another week, another Sunday, another time of unbelievable sadness and mayhem in the world. People say they are moving to this place or th...

 Yes, it has been awhile. But I have an excuse. So, on Sept. 18 I had my knee replaced. Now, that was 58 years after the initial injury! I l...

  Another weekend has come upon us and I'm feeling rather maudlin. I started the day learning about Jimmy Buffet's passing and then ...