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BONUS: AI Brings New Color to Fisher-Ley Family Portraits
In Living Color
New AI filters on Ancestry.com bring new life to old family photos, including this blog's dad-tastic masthead! https://colt76foutz.wordpress.com/2024/01/16/color-me-enchanted/?page_id=3979
Item! Texas Marketer Confuses Cleveland for Cincinnati
Spurs' Diss Misses the Mark In the realm of this Dad's favorite eats Skyline Chili stands alone. We've spilled the sauce on Cincinnati's famous chili spaghetti a couple times in this space. And though I'm a big fan of grilled burgers, and brats, and New Year's pork and sauerkraut, and pizza glory in several permutations,... Continue Reading →
Hanging in Mr. Morgan’s Neighborhood
What can you learn from a spin through your great-great grandparents' hometown, and a stop in the local historical society museum? Plenty. In this case, even though Thomas Morgan's namesake hotel hasn't stood on the corner of Chartiers and Main streets for 50 or more years, there just happened to be a scale model of... Continue Reading →
My Morning Brain Grand Slam
Words to live by…. I didn’t become a regular coffee drinker until I met my wife and settled into a lazy AM routine of sunshine, catching up on news, and plenty of cream and sugar in my cup. Add kids to the brew, and stir in a unhealthy shot of constant, crazy world events, and... Continue Reading →
Meandering Man: Free (Extended) Nashville Weekend
Lazy (Extra) Days in Nashville - Dad About Town After an early career as a journalist that afforded me titillating glimpses of the wilder parts of Sandusky, Ohio (the North Coast!!!) and the Chicago suburbs (Naperville! Downers Grove! Wheaton! Bolingbrook!!!!!!!!!) -- I've been blessed to upgrade from that scintillating travelogue to the farflung locales the... Continue Reading →
Happy Thanksgiving Redux: 2018 Update
Back to the Future: Thanksgiving Slideshow Some of the power inherent in family traditions is their timeless pull -- no matter how many years have passed, you feel like you could dust off the old recipe and serve it up that day to acclaim and applause, or creak open an old family album and step... Continue Reading →
Happy Thanksgiving To You and Yours
A Very Foutz Thanksgiving, 1949 As a writer, what turns me on about genealogy is the stories you uncover. And it's a bonus that the characters starring in them are bound to you by blood. The intimacy of it -- their history is yours, too -- is what tantalizes. Not necessarily the dates and thrice-so-and-so-twice-removed... Continue Reading →
5 Reasons My Dog is Better Than Yours
In Praise of the Golden Retriever, Best Dog of All When I was a young(er) man, I had a four-word concept of what a perfect life would be. Or, at least the end of a perfect day. (I also had the notion that my perfect house would start by building it around a hot tub.... Continue Reading →
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