By Dave Ellis

Human beings love comfort. We live in comfortable air-conditioned homes, have running water, cable TV, and processed cheese products. We’ve worked thousands of years to gain these comforts and then we throw them all away by going camping.

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By Dave Ellis
There are many facets to genealogy. This month I would like to focus on family stories, and by family stories I mean embarrassing moments.

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By Dave Ellis
The Roman myth of the twins Romulus and Remus states that a wicked uncle cast them out of the land so he could rule it.
The twins were then raised by a she-wolf until they could restore their grandfather to the throne. Romulus later founded the city of Rome, where he created Roman candles, Roman numerals and Roman tubs.

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By Dave Ellis
A young man is embarrassed to question an older one. (Homer, The Odyssey) I am the young man in the above quote; my father is the ‘older one’. This month we will embark on an epic journey, much like Ulysses, in taking all my father’s earthly possessions, stuffing them into giant rental trucks and driving 1100 miles so they can be re-stuffed into his new house. It’s a circle-of-life kind of thing.

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By Dave Ellis

Eleven months ago, my wife made me put all the Christmas decorations away. Guess what?
She now wants them all back out! I told her this would happen! Why bother putting them away? I love it when I’m right.

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