Looking for Charles Edward Clifton

My husband is looking for his biological father whom he has never really met.  If you have any information please contact me. Thank you!

Surviving Poverty

Some of today's headlines were something we thought America had conquered.

U.S. sees highest poverty spike since the 1960s

Help shrinks as poverty spikes in the US

In U.S., Child Poverty and Hunger Rates Remain Alarmingly High

The following is a reality show in filmed in Wales.  It sets up three families to (voluntarily) deal with living the poverty of the Wales mining communities in 1927.  The walk away learning what they really value in life.

Native American Basketry

Native American Basketry Site

Who Controls the Children

Mind Reading Rats

It's weird when cartoons become headlines:

Implant Makes Mind Reading Possible in Rats

Okay the rats and mice from Nimh weren't reading minds, but they were reading.

Family Secrets

A recent article on The Blaze reminded me of a conversation I'd had at one time with a professional investigator.

Kanazawa also pointed out that some studies have shown babies are born looking more like the father than the mother potentially to trigger biological recognition by the father — even on a subconscious level — and support his paternity.
 

I know how much I looked like my father when I was a baby.  When my first daughter was born all I could see was how much she looked like my husband, and now she looks like me the most out of our four girls.

My conversation with the investigator kind of stunned me at the time.  He said my younger sister didn't look anything like my father.  I'd thought about, I compared pictures.  I think he's right. I look at my face and I can see a bit of both my parents in it looking back from the mirror. 

This article reminded me of a conversation I had had with my mother when I was a kid.  When my sister was born and people came to hospital to see her in the nursery, they couldn't find her.  They thought she was a completely different ethnic baby at the time, Hispanic. 

Okay, that one thing should be no big deal.  But then I remembered other conversations and well, pushy odd behavior.  My mother had said when she was younger and dating she had a guy's pregnant wife show up on her door step.  There was at least one person that would not let their husband anywhere near her.  I had my mother join me at a dinner with my theater friends in a completely different town than where we lived, and she said she may have known one of my friends husbands before. She dressed my sister and I as twins, every stinking day, clear into high school.  Two little girls with similar hair and clothes, who was she trying to convince.

Okay, so that's my loose summation of what may have happened.  My sister is a year and a half younger than me, I've only got so much info to work with.  The part that sickens me is that if this is true, where was I when she had this affair?  I hope she had the decency to leave me with a babysitter.

They say that men and women are drawn to people that remind them of their mother and father.  If the stories I heard about my father's mother are true, then the likely hood of my mother running around are quite possibly statically higher.

Peterloo

Peterloo.  Ever hear of it?  A peaceful protest turned bloody when the GOVERNMENT worried about people having a different opinion.  They came to listen to someone speak and died for it. 

The info is at about the 42 minute mark.  This is the second of a series by Dr. Lucy talking about the Regency Brand. 

Disney 1954 Johnnie Fedora and Alice Bluebonnet

At Work and At Play

The final in the three parts series of Harlots, Housewives and Heroins.

(Warning for the morally squeamish, the Brits are much more open discussing sex.)

At Work and At Play:

At Home

The second in a three part series of Harlots, Housewives and Heroins.

(Warning for the morally squeamish, the Brits are much more open discussing sex.)

At Home: