My grandmother, Helene Kupferman Greene, died in 1999, and my grandfather, Ernest Charles Greene, died in 2004. I inherited these photos of theirs six years ago, and it took me this long to scan them. Now that I’ve scanned them, I can’t wait to share them! This photos–especially when viewed larger in these high-resolution scans–show amazing detail, history, personality, and style. I would be thrilled if the descendants–children, grandchildren, or even great-grandchildren, see their mothers, grandmothers, or great-grandmothers in these photos. If I love them, I’m sure these ladies’ progeny will love them even more. If by some chance you recognize one of the young women in these photos, please let me know!
Well, I did it! And it was really pretty easy. Yesterday, I imported the WordPress.org blog smithersgreene.net into WordPress.com. Today, I added the domain smithersgreene.net to this blog so that I can manage the content in WordPress.com instead of in WordPress.org. I find this blogging platform more carefree and easier to manage. So, yay! It worked. And it costs less than $10 a year to host this blog here are WordPress.com.
I used one of my smaller blogs as a test run for importing a WordPress.org blog into WordPress.com. It was easy! Now to see how easy or difficult it is to add a domain to a WordPress.com blog. I’m hoping it’s just as easy and we can point our domain, smithersgreene.net, over here so I can manage it with WordPress.com. Seems much easier and better suited to my (our) needs than WordPress.org blog, which requires me to maintain two different installations of WordPress software that I have to update separately. (And even if, as of this month, I can maintain two blogs in one installation with WordPress 3.x, it’s still more complicated than with WordPress.com.)
Now that we got the Wii Fit Plus that allows you to create Miis for your pets and weigh them (and track changes), I set up Buxley and Lady. Now we have our whole family represented in Miis. When I saw the screen this morning, it reminded me of those people who have the cutout sticky people on the rear windows of their vehicles. Those people always have straight families: Mother, Father, Daughter, Son, with maybe some cats and dogs. I’ve always thought it would be funny to have stickers of two men and two dogs on the back of my car. Well, this is the closest I’ve come to that yet: my family in Wii Miis.
And yes, I did mean “Our Wii Family” to be a pun of “Our Wee Family.”
Oh, and by the way, Lady’s already lost 2.5 pounds in the past month since we’ve been feeding her less. Yay, Lady!
Um, do I need to say that Wii Fit Plus is a registered trademark of Nintendo, Inc.? =)
Just thought I’d reblog this on our family blog to reflect on our eclectic spirituality…
Yuletide Plates. Originally uploaded by danielgreene. I am a Jew who loves Christmas. To me, Chrismastime is a season, not a celebration of Christ. I do not believe that Jesus was the messiah. Personally, I do not believe that there will ever be one Messiah; instead, I believe that each baby born brings with him or her a great hope that he or she may help, in his or her own way, to heal the world (tikkun olam). The Nativity story, while I do not … Read More
I’m posting this on the one-week anniversary of our legal same-sex marriage in California. Since I took it with my Sidekick and uploaded it to Flickr right after our civil ceremony, it’s been viewed (as of this writing) 199 times, had received 53 comments, and 6 people call it a favorite.
A million thanks to all who made it possible for us to get married legally!
This is dedicated to a colleague’s son who died suddenly last week at the age of 4. I attended his funeral at a Mormon church yesterday. The first order of service was singing a hymn called “Families Can Be Together Forever” whose lyrics resonated with me, a gay Jewish man:
“I have a family here on earth.
They are so good to me.
I want to share my life with them
Through all eternity.
Families can be together forever
Though Heavenly Father’s plan.
I always want to be with my own family
And the Lord has shown me how I can.”
(Words: Ruth Muir Gardner, Music: Vanja Y. Watkins)
It is interesting that I heard this song the day after watching the movie Juno and being struck by a line spoken by Ellen Page’s character: Continue reading →
I’m usually in on this myself, but it was great to be able to grab our point & shoot and get this little video of Buxley & Lady playing with each other and one of their daddies.
