January 2007

SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 2007 Blog Ideas - Book reviews (Appreciations) Start reviewing the books on your reading shelf. I like what Tom Montag had to say about book reviewing... I call my commentary on books"appreciations" and not "reviews." Why?I find the term "appreciation" allows me to engage a book on my own terms, and on the book's terms, rather than…

December 2006

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2006 Beyond the Fields We Know To enrich the earth I have sowed clover and grassto grow and die. I have plowed in the seedsof winter grains and various legumes,their growth to be plowed in to enrich the earth.I have stirred into the ground the offaland the decay of the growth of past seasonsand so mended the…

November 2006

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2006 SIMPLY WAIT Patry published this and I want to remember it  Tuesday, November 28, 2006 10 WAYS BLOGGING WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE and a quote about ice-cream https://flic.kr/p/thRam 1. You will know yourself more deeply than you ever did before. No matter how old you are, or how much time you spent on your analyst's couch,…

New pages added

I went through some old directories and uploaded the pictures I had from a few of the past Boyd-Cox Reunions. The link to the slideshows can be found on the Sidebar (once I get around to updating the links, sorry). Go check it out...

Site Update

I started trying to update the genealogy on this site yesterday. I managed to get the new pages up only to find out I need to tweak the code embeded in every page. Since it took almost 4 hours last evening to delete and upload the new pages, I'll try to redo it tonight...

October 10 2006

Trying to keep the genealogy data updated on this site is not a easy task. Really it mainly involves about four hours to upload a full set of pages. And this is with a semi-fast connection...Oh well, I will try to be more timely in the updating. One major change in this update...I have been convinced by the staggering amount…

Well, for what it’s worth, I have been doing research

...I just haven't been writing about it here, I'll try to be better. Last summer a group of researchers with a common (or not common) connection back to different ancestors in my Cox/Pearson line got together in Austin to exchange info and ideas. Since then we have been exchanging emails and additional info. One of the things I think we…