Paula W
@toomuchbrudders.bsky.social
Happily retired. Voracious reader 📚💙(inherited Folio Society collection), family-tree researcher/storyteller ☘️, TooMuchBrudders.com family blogger. Married to 5th generation farmer. My grandson calls me Goose. 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇩🇪 🇨🇦 🇫🇷 🇬🇧
Some #BookRecommendations for the second half of December: toomuchbrudders.com/2020/12/31/b... #Christmas #BookSky 💙📚 #NowReading #BookLover 🎄
Books of Christmas past | Too Much Brudders blog
There's no better time to pull out the Christmas books than during the month of December. Here are four I read this year.
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December 12, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Some #BookRecommendations for the second half of December: toomuchbrudders.com/2020/12/31/b... #Christmas #BookSky 💙📚 #NowReading #BookLover 🎄
So many branches to explore in the family tree. How to choose what’s next?
Well. Once I saw that hat, I knew my choice was made: toomuchbrudders.com/2025/12/11/t... #FamilyHistory #EdwardianFashion #ancestry
Well. Once I saw that hat, I knew my choice was made: toomuchbrudders.com/2025/12/11/t... #FamilyHistory #EdwardianFashion #ancestry
The hat | Too Much Brudders blog
Hopping from limb to limb in our family tree, looking for a story, I came across this wedding photo. And that hat!
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December 12, 2025 at 3:19 AM
So many branches to explore in the family tree. How to choose what’s next?
Well. Once I saw that hat, I knew my choice was made: toomuchbrudders.com/2025/12/11/t... #FamilyHistory #EdwardianFashion #ancestry
Well. Once I saw that hat, I knew my choice was made: toomuchbrudders.com/2025/12/11/t... #FamilyHistory #EdwardianFashion #ancestry
Christmas came early! 🎅🏼
Indiana’s Republican-led senate voted against a redrawn congressional map Thursday that would have favored their party in the 2026 elections, despite months of pressure by President Donald Trump for a rare mid-cycle redistricting. https://to.pbs.org/4aHg2K3
Indiana Republicans block new congressional map in rare break with Trump
Indiana's Republican-led senate voted against a redrawn congressional map Thursday that would have favored their party in the 2026 elections, despite months of pressure by President Donald Trump for a rare mid-cycle redistricting.
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December 11, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Christmas came early! 🎅🏼
December 11, 2025 at 2:55 PM
She was born on this day in 1915, the youngest of the Patrick and Anna Cassidy clan in New Haven. ☘️ Stricken with polio at a young age, Virginia prevailed: toomuchbrudders.com/2025/06/11/f... #FamilyHistory #Connecticut #BookLover #poem #poetry #otd 📚💙
'Fleshing the Bones' | Ginny Cassidy | Too Much Brudders blog
Mom was crazy about her aunt Ginny, who lived within walking distance of her childhood home. Mom wrote this poem weeks before Ginny passed.
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December 11, 2025 at 2:25 PM
She was born on this day in 1915, the youngest of the Patrick and Anna Cassidy clan in New Haven. ☘️ Stricken with polio at a young age, Virginia prevailed: toomuchbrudders.com/2025/06/11/f... #FamilyHistory #Connecticut #BookLover #poem #poetry #otd 📚💙
When Christmas shopping for gifts for an anonymous man in a nursing home, we decided he needed a name: toomuchbrudders.com/2019/09/04/w... #FamilyHistory #NewHaven #Connecticut #Holocaust
Walter | A survivor, an uncle, a poet | Too Much Brudders blog
The name Walter was once quite popular, but can you think of a child or teen named Walter? Here are stories about some Walters in our lives.
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December 10, 2025 at 3:06 PM
When Christmas shopping for gifts for an anonymous man in a nursing home, we decided he needed a name: toomuchbrudders.com/2019/09/04/w... #FamilyHistory #NewHaven #Connecticut #Holocaust
The story of Farmer Gary’s grandfather, George Werne, who was born on this day in 1883: toomuchbrudders.com/2023/03/09/t... #FamilyHistory #otd #FarmLife #tuberculosis #ancestry @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social
The tuberculosis house | Too Much Brudders blog
As we go back in time, we learn that tuberculosis played an important part in whether George Werne would take a bride.
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December 9, 2025 at 1:35 PM
The story of Farmer Gary’s grandfather, George Werne, who was born on this day in 1883: toomuchbrudders.com/2023/03/09/t... #FamilyHistory #otd #FarmLife #tuberculosis #ancestry @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social
I sure hope she was right: toomuchbrudders.com/2020/04/08/t... #poetry #poem #WriteSky #FamilyHistory #Connecticut
'There is no money in Heaven' | Too Much Brudders blog
Sr. Amabilis is in heaven now, following 58 years as a first-grade teacher. Here are three poems she wrote, plus an essay written about her.
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December 7, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I sure hope she was right: toomuchbrudders.com/2020/04/08/t... #poetry #poem #WriteSky #FamilyHistory #Connecticut
My mom, who lived through this history in her early teens, wrote poetry through the trauma of Pearl Harbor and beyond: toomuchbrudders.com/2025/06/15/u... #FamilyHistory #poem #WriteSky
'She Stood Alone' | USS Hornet | Too Much Brudders blog
This poem about the USS Hornet was Mom's schoolgirl way of waving the flag in the early months of the United States' entry into World War II.
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December 7, 2025 at 4:17 PM
My mom, who lived through this history in her early teens, wrote poetry through the trauma of Pearl Harbor and beyond: toomuchbrudders.com/2025/06/15/u... #FamilyHistory #poem #WriteSky
My grandma carried this massive purple cat on the bus from New Haven, Connecticut, to Pittsfield, Massachusetts, back in the 1960s: toomuchbrudders.com/2020/02/22/m... #caturday #ThanksGrandma #memories
Madam Queen | aka Boo Boo Kitty | Too Much Brudders blog
Before Laverne & Shirley introduced Boo Boo Kitty, there was Madam Queen. My Grandma hauled the huge purple kitty across state lines on a bus
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December 6, 2025 at 4:37 PM
My grandma carried this massive purple cat on the bus from New Haven, Connecticut, to Pittsfield, Massachusetts, back in the 1960s: toomuchbrudders.com/2020/02/22/m... #caturday #ThanksGrandma #memories
A few Christmas wreath stories. And an uninvited bird in the house: too muchbrudders.com/2020/12/23/a-wreath-so-wide/ #FamilyHistory #Christmas #nature
A Wreath so wide | Christmas past | Too Much Brudders blog
There's a lesson to be learned from this story: When you head out to buy a Christmas wreath, bring along your measuring tape!
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December 6, 2025 at 2:05 AM
A few Christmas wreath stories. And an uninvited bird in the house: too muchbrudders.com/2020/12/23/a-wreath-so-wide/ #FamilyHistory #Christmas #nature
A letter written soon after Christmas in 1943 details gifts, including War Bonds. My mom, just 13 years old, included a poem: toomuchbrudders.com/2020/12/21/a... #FamilyHistory #poetry
A war bond for Christmas | Too Much Brudders blog
A sweet letter following the Christmas of 1943 mentioned a now unheard-of present under the tree: a war bond.
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December 5, 2025 at 1:29 PM
A letter written soon after Christmas in 1943 details gifts, including War Bonds. My mom, just 13 years old, included a poem: toomuchbrudders.com/2020/12/21/a... #FamilyHistory #poetry
Arson took my Irish great-grandparents’ home in America: toomuchbrudders.com/2024/02/25/a... #FamilyHistory #poetry #immigrants #crime #Connecticut #poem
A homestead in ashes | Fire | Too Much Brudders blog
A fire in 2005 destroyed my great-grandparents' home, long after they were gone and long after their children were also gone.
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December 4, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Arson took my Irish great-grandparents’ home in America: toomuchbrudders.com/2024/02/25/a... #FamilyHistory #poetry #immigrants #crime #Connecticut #poem
December 4, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Here are the ho-ho-holiday books I enjoyed last December: toomuchbrudders.com/2024/12/31/t... #BookRecommendations 🎄 #NowReading 📚💙
The Snow Goose and The Nutcracker | Too Much Brudders blog
From The Nutcracker to The Snow Goose to Little Women, December's books were full of Christmas cheer and even a few murders.
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December 3, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Here are the ho-ho-holiday books I enjoyed last December: toomuchbrudders.com/2024/12/31/t... #BookRecommendations 🎄 #NowReading 📚💙
When my dad was the new kid in 1943, he did something that got him removed from the school: toomuchbrudders.com/2019/07/28/a... #FamilyHistory #Connecticut
Angels and angles | Dad skipped a grade | Too Much Brudders blog
Dad's knowledge of angles and angels made a difference when it came to which grade he would be in when his family moved to New Haven.
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December 3, 2025 at 1:38 PM
When my dad was the new kid in 1943, he did something that got him removed from the school: toomuchbrudders.com/2019/07/28/a... #FamilyHistory #Connecticut
We got some snow overnight! Remember getting excited at the thought of a Snow Day? Here are some family stories: toomuchbrudders.com/2022/01/07/s... ❄️ #FamilyHistory #poetry #weather #poem #snow
Snow day | Too Much Brudders blog
We were always ready for a snow day - yet rarely got them as kids. Yesterday's snow reminded me of our boys' delight in a snowy day off.
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December 2, 2025 at 2:02 PM
We got some snow overnight! Remember getting excited at the thought of a Snow Day? Here are some family stories: toomuchbrudders.com/2022/01/07/s... ❄️ #FamilyHistory #poetry #weather #poem #snow
On #WorldAIDSDay please remember the advocacy of Larry Kramer: toomuchbrudders.com/2020/05/27/t...
The loudmouth | Larry Kramer | Too Much Brudders blog
Rest in Peace, Larry Kramer. The playwright and AIDS activist taught us all to be loud when no one is listening and to never give up.
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December 2, 2025 at 1:54 AM
On #WorldAIDSDay please remember the advocacy of Larry Kramer: toomuchbrudders.com/2020/05/27/t...
Six books devoured in November:
toomuchbrudders.com/2025/11/30/l... 📚💙💡 #BookRecommendations #ClassicLiterature
toomuchbrudders.com/2025/11/30/l... 📚💙💡 #BookRecommendations #ClassicLiterature
Literary leftovers | Too Much Brudders blog
November's reading provided loads of literary leftovers, with classic novels, true crime, and a memoir I'd been meaning to read.
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December 2, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Six books devoured in November:
toomuchbrudders.com/2025/11/30/l... 📚💙💡 #BookRecommendations #ClassicLiterature
toomuchbrudders.com/2025/11/30/l... 📚💙💡 #BookRecommendations #ClassicLiterature
A daughter of Polish immigrants, sent to a Connecticut state home during the Depression. Later, she found a permanent home with a new family: toomuchbrudders.com/2025/11/30/t... #FamilyHistory #Connecticut #ancestry
The third parent | Too Much Brudders blog
A child during The Depression, Anna was sent to a state home. Eventually, she found another home and became a third parent to Mom's cousins.
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December 1, 2025 at 12:01 AM
A daughter of Polish immigrants, sent to a Connecticut state home during the Depression. Later, she found a permanent home with a new family: toomuchbrudders.com/2025/11/30/t... #FamilyHistory #Connecticut #ancestry
My grandfather wrote this poem 101 years ago (he painted this picture as well): toomuchbrudders.com/2024/06/28/m... #art #poetry #Maine #FamilyHistory #weather #ancestry
'Moods of the Storm' | Too Much Brudders blog
Here's a poem my paternal grandfather wrote 100 years ago, Moods of the Storm. It was published in the local newspaper in Lewiston, Maine.
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November 30, 2025 at 12:55 AM
My grandfather wrote this poem 101 years ago (he painted this picture as well): toomuchbrudders.com/2024/06/28/m... #art #poetry #Maine #FamilyHistory #weather #ancestry
Ah, comfort. A favorite covering from my childhood years, the cherry spread: toomuchbrudders.com/2020/03/05/t... #FamilyHistory
The cherry spread | Comforting comforter | Too Much Brudders blog
Growing up in the '60s, there was nothing more comforting for a sick child than a kiss from Mom, a sip of ginger ale, and the cherry spread.
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November 29, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Ah, comfort. A favorite covering from my childhood years, the cherry spread: toomuchbrudders.com/2020/03/05/t... #FamilyHistory
November 27, 2025 at 11:49 PM
My grandmother’s cookbook from a century ago, with some wild recipes: toomuchbrudders.com/2022/08/15/k... #cookbook #FamilyHistory 💙📚
'Keep your powder dry' | Baking powder | Too Much Brudders blog
This century-old cookbook that belonged to my maternal grandma is full of fascinating recipes, many of which feature Rumford Baking Powder.
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November 27, 2025 at 3:41 PM
My grandmother’s cookbook from a century ago, with some wild recipes: toomuchbrudders.com/2022/08/15/k... #cookbook #FamilyHistory 💙📚