Another nod to old age

 

It was time once again for some relief from the result of arthritis on my spine.  So I'm starting the new year with another epidural and am relatively pain free.  The shot seems to help a little with allergies, also.  Here's to a better 2021, putting all that pain and Covid of 2020 "behind" us!

2020 Christmas Tree by Cher

 It'll be a very different Christmas - a Covid Christmas this year.

 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

Hebrews 13:8

 

Nathan Genealogy

I am researching my son-in-law's ancestry and am looking for a 3rd great aunt, maiden name Hulda or Hilda Nathan, born about 1879 in San Francisco, California.  Parents were Isaac Nathan (abt 1834-1926) and Tina Rosen (1846-1896).  I believe Hulda/Hilda was their youngest.  She married Max Manuel Cohen in 1897 and they divorced in 1899 - in San Francisco - after the birth of a daughter.  I have not found a remarriage or anything further after the divorce.  Her father's obituary in 1926 mentions her as "Hilda Cohen."  

My Bill

 

Rioters

Perhaps the destructive rioters around our country should be treated differently:

 

GenealogyBank:

1916 Aug 22, Oxford Democrat, P5, Paris, Maine

Mr. and Mrs. Morris Berwin and their daughter, Mrs. Rose Jacobson, were each fined a cent by Judge Riley in Malden, Mass., court for squirting water out of a hose on a neighbor.

 

 

 

 

These Are the Days of Elijah

 

20/20 in 2020

Four eye surgeries from August 24 through September 28 and I am 20/20!  A lot of tension, a lot of stress and a lot of wondering if I'd "settle" for something less - but through prayers of family, church family and friends, my eyes are seeing better than I can ever remember.  I was in a small percentage of people whose lenses sit further back in my eye, affecting the focus, so each eye had to be redone.  But now - no more cataracts, my world is bright and clear, I can easily read, play piano, work on genealogy for friends and family and work on the inclination to hunt for my glasses or to reach up to take them off!  Many thanks to Dr. Reyes for sticking with me through it all, for my daughter and my friend, Kathy, for being my drivers when I wasn't allowed to drive.  Most of all, thanks to God for answering all our prayers.  I will be playing piano preludes now with even more thanks in my heart.