Here it starts...

This, my 5th and hopefully more successful, blog will attempt to encapsulate some of my recollections of stories from my childhood about my family along with research, pictures, and input from friends and relatives about where I came from and how I got here. I may include some personal stories in order to avoid the lack of documentation surrounding my late father's life. But then I do not suffer from the same malady as he--I actually embrace technology, whereas he swore it was from the Devil! Although, some days I think he may have been right...