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Paula W
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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. 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇩🇪 🇨🇦 🇫🇷 🇬🇧
#NowReading A classic!
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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
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
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 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
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
#NowReading ☘️ The Speckled People memoir by Huge Hamilton
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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
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
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
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
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
#Caturday relaxation for the well-dressed kitty.
November 29, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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
#NowReading The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis
The Third Book of the Chronicles of Narnia
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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
A Thanksgiving poem from 1944, plus memories from past holidays:
toomuchbrudders.com/2022/11/23/r... 🦃 #FamilyHistory #poetry #Thanksgiving
'Rustic Holiday' | Too Much Brudders blog
Didn't have to search long to find a poem Mom wrote about Thanksgiving. She wrote "Rustic Holiday" in 1944 when she was only 14.
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November 26, 2025 at 8:47 PM
The year we made chestnut stuffing for Thanksgiving (plus two poems): toomuchbrudders.com/2024/11/27/t... #Thanksgiving #poetry #FamilyHistory #writer
Two Thanksgiving poems | Too Much Brudders blog
Happy Thanksgiving! Here are two lovely poems from Mom, plus a gross story about boiling chestnuts from me.
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November 26, 2025 at 4:46 PM