Tag Archives: possessions

Minnie was eight years old in 1912 when her photograph was taken. She wore a cream-colored dress with a large sailor’s collar, three pearl buttons sewn on the fabric.  A pointed, cloth bonnet covered her hair, her braids peeking out the sides. She wore dark stockings over her legs.  There ...

“Every two seconds, another American becomes a victim of identity fraud” (CNN Money). According to a recent study done by Javelin Strategy and Research there was a 500,000 increase in the number of identity fraud victims from 2012 to 2013 placing the number of incidents in 2013 at 13.1 million ...

A few weeks ago, Nashville, the glitzy city bordering my own town of Clarksville, has been buried in snow. Quite unusual for this city of southern belles and country music. Consequently, many normal “luxuries” of life were briefly off limits. Some lost power, some lost cars in icy pile ups. ...