by stacylcarlson | Apr 13, 2026 | Thoughts
It’s funny. How the perspective of one brother isn’t the same for the other. How the narrative was built for one, but not the other. How the truth is true, for one and not the other. When she met E, he was living with one foot in a world he loved and one...
by stacylcarlson | Mar 17, 2026 | Thoughts
The baskets of family photos sit in my office, carefully placed in ziplock bags and labeled. Grandma had the foresight to do this before her passing, and those photos have been passed down to me. They whisper. The last letter from her mother. Handwriting barely...
by stacylcarlson | Dec 22, 2025 | Thoughts
I miss my grandma. I say that almost every day, either out loud or in my head. I miss her.
by stacylcarlson | Dec 3, 2025 | Thoughts
For those that spend any amount of time with me, they will know that I need music playing to fill silence. I’ve written often here about my love for music, and how it brings a certain level of calm to my very hectic and loud brain. So, each year, when Spotify...
by stacylcarlson | Dec 1, 2025 | Thoughts
It started simple enough. My nephew mentioned that he wanted me to get back into the family tree research. Sure, why not. It would be cool to see where we are from. I hopped into Ancestry.com, started building the tree, became super curious and said the unthinkable....
