[O]ne thing we all have in common as humans is the need to connect with others… even if the discovery only [leads] to being able to look into eyes that looked like mine for a minute. I felt this need to connect on a cellular level and the reason was indefinable to me. – Annette L Becklund, Ancestry Discoveries (2023, p. 8) My parents had … Continue reading On the Nose

I reached a significant milestone today in finalising the payoff of the loan on my flat – nine years and a month ahead of the 30-year mortgage deadline. And I celebrate that, as I did when Donna and Dave, my parents, paid off our home in 1981, four years early. They accomplished the early payoff by shifting their work lives starting with my high school … Continue reading Today Donna and Dave paid off a second home