By Gary Topping– I admit it: I was a pretty weird kid. I knew it at the time and was unrepentant. Still am. I rarely listened to popular music. I…
Posts published in September 2022
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– Near the end of my first decade of life, singer Neil Young penned and recorded a song called “After the Gold Rush.” The haunting lyrics of…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien- When I gave my 24-year-old son Danny a recent tour of my new office at my new law firm, he sat in my chair, put his…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– As I watched my friends—the monks from the old Trappist monastery in Northern Utah—cope for the last five years with the closure of their beloved Huntsville…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien Many of us add meaning, understanding, and context to daily life with genealogy research about our family ancestors. Our personal lives seem more interesting when we…