Recent content by porkypine

When I was a kid, I never knew what I was 'going to be when I grew up'. I've done the minimum wage fabric store work and I've also worked selling photographic equipment (I was always fascinated by photography and learned how to process film the old fashioned way. I had my eye on a gorgeous 4 x 5...

:laugh: When I was a kid with severe allergies, my mom used to say I has lung patient... :laugh: I grew out of the worst of it by the time I got to be a teenager. :thumbsup: But I have always had an on again and off again crick in my neck... Sometimes I joke and tell my husband, "See...

Why would you have been killed for being a Quaker in new England?

Wow... In my family several people have seen 'ghosties'. :) A few months after my grandpa had passed, my dad was going to visit his mom. Out front my dad stopped to talk to his father who was busy with his beloved garden plants by the front door. Grandpa and dad had a long talk and grandpa...

lol.... This is actually funny. We still tease our mom about it. When we were kids even up to now as adults, we'd be joking around and zinging puns back and forth and my mom would get kinda mad at us because she couldn't keep up with us. It was like tossing verbal balls over her head that she...

:laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh: What a DELIGHT! I bet that messes with a fundamentalist's noggin'!

While I don't speak any other language but english fluently, I do pick up accents, words and phrases in other languages very easily. I know lots of words/phrases in spanish, tagalog, dakota, gaelic, some japanese and cantonese, french... lol... I do have an inexplicable reaction to one of...

Yep.. the alarms have gone off in a few cases here and there during my life. One time, I was at my then, 'future' in-laws house and this guy walked in the door. Instantly! my defenses went up, alarm bells rang and I knew NOT to turn my back on that guy! Of course, I chided myself on my...

Hi, I just wanted to add, that you can not always trust names and dates from old written records. An example from my own family - My great grand parents are buried in Golden Gate National Cemetary in SF. My G-Grandfather's name on the stone and in the records is wrong. They used his baptism...

Hi, I know several people from various countries in Africa, and several of them remember living previously. Nigeria, Cameroon, Burkina Faso....

It's going to be difficult to find the people's stories in western books. You will find military and 'royal' histories, but not the history of the everyday people, Unless you find an anthropologist who went and wrote down remembered history and stories from their descendants. Google is my...