At a cafe

I am sitting in the Cafe at Barnes and Noble and thought I would blog a little.  I had a blueberry scone and a glass of pomegranate/cherry juice and it was yummy. I am disappointed at the internet here though. I was going to watch some videos but they are just as slow here as at home.  I guess I will have to go to my other favorite cafe to do that.  Their speed is lightning fast.

A couple days ago I was doing research for my book and I found the Family Tree magazine and  this issue listed the 40 top blogs for genealogy and now I found an Irish one which led me to another one just full of places for me to look, to discover and get lost in. I will be spending a lot of time on the computer checking all these sources out.

One thing that I have asked the Universe is to point me to the people, places and information that I need for this journey of many miles I am taking. The exciting thing is that things like this keep happening.  It just reinforces for me that I was destined to make this trip, to do this research and to write this story.  Having no doubts  is a wonderful feeling.  I am having a really fantastic day,  I hope you are too.

Leahy, what a performance

I saw Leahy perform last night. What a way to get excited about Ireland.  They were incredible.  A group of sisters and brothers from Canada who sing and dance Celtic music.  There are actually 11 of them but only 8 perform at a time.  The men and the women all danced, played the fiddle, piano and guitars and drums too.  What an amazing night.  They actually had a niece performing too and what an incredible singer and dancer she was.  There was a proposal on stage for a member of the audience.  That was fun it was the first time I have ever witnessed that in person.  Oh yes the woman said yes.  My friend Ginger had gifted me with the tickets when she left town to see her new grand daughter. What a great gift that was.

I have been playing with  ancestory.com and boy is it fun.  The other times I tried to do this I could never find anything on my grandfather.  This time I found the family in the 1920 census.  It was like the existed finally. I found my grandparents and all their children.  When I looked at the 1930 census I knew it would be sad since 3 of their children had died by then from tuberculosis.  My Aunt Margaret was listed but my mother wasn't since those were the years she was in the hospital and I also discovered that they had a border living with them at the time.  How interesting that was.   I can't wait to look even more.

I seem to be blocked artistically and have been trying to work through it. I have two books to work on and am just drawing a blank.  I hate when that happens. I figured that if I could just do some art that might help.  I have been doing some backgrounds in my journal but not much else. I hope that if I spend some time in the studio I will let go of that and some art will just jump out of me.