My grandmother, Alice, wanted to be a nurse. I only discovered this a few years ago, when my mother was passing along some of her mother’s papers to me. Among the papers was this letter my grandmother received from Saint Augustine’s College in Raleigh, NC. Saint Augustine is a Historically Black College, founded in 1867, […]
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Last month, I did a blog post about a school my mother attended and made a comment that I went to a different school almost every year between Kindergarten and 12th grade. We moved around a lot 🙂 Well, fortunately, I did have some stability at the end of that time span (not that I’m
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Experiment 626. I am a super-fan of Experiment 626, or, as you may know him, Stitch, from the movie Lilo & Stitch. Ask anyone who knows me and they will tell you it’s true! There is just something so heartwarming and heartbreaking at the same time in Stitch’s quest to just “belong” and Lilo takes
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I distinctly remember the day in the 10th grade when I decided I would apply to go to the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics (nickname: Science & Math). We were living in Charlotte, and I was browsing materials I’d picked up at school during a college fair. The NCSSM brochure looked appealing and
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On Friday, May 14th, I received my Masters of Public Health degree from Vanderbilt University. I blogged about it on my family blog if you’re interested in reading the details, but I was prompted by this recent milestone to tell my stories about my previous graduations. ‘Tis the season for graduations after all right? Forgive
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The call for submissions to the 55th Carnival of Genealogy has been announced and the topic is Show & Tell! Participants are charged with sharing an “…heirloom, a special photo, a valuable document, or a significant person that is a very special part of your family history.” To this end, I’d like to share this