Another Metamorphosis
It must have been a dream, probably caused by the pressure of graduate study and teaching. Yesterday, I took a break from my teaching assistant duties in the history department at Notre Dame to call my mother and wish her a happy 60th Birthday. Before I could get the words out of my mouth, she…
Why Do you Scrapbook?
I’ve been scrapbooking since my oldest daughter was 12 years old. That’s 23 years of scrapbooking. When I first started, I had 13 years’ worth of pictures in plastic shoe boxes. Before I started scrapbooking, I dabbled in stamping. I made all sorts of beautiful cards, although I sent very few of them out. And…
To Print or Not to Print – that is the Question
I scrapbook with real printed pictures. Why do I do such things? Why do I bother? After all, I have thousands of pictures in my google account, Facebook account, on my phone, at Shutterfly, Amazon, etc. My scrapbooks/photos could burn up in a fire, be damaged in a flood, etc. My children, gasp, may throw…
Scrapbooks and the Truth
Do photos ever tell the truth? Or is it that they don’t tell the whole story? We know that photos can be used to deceive, especially in our digital age. Two people can tell a different story about the same picture. Which story is true? Could they both be true? Recently, I’ve come across some…
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