I wrote this story last year about my ancestors and their reluctance to accept foreigners. I have begun preparations to move from Mexico to Maryland, home to the Hardcastles during the Revolutionary War. I thought it was fitting to return to them one more time. Having a child changes a man. Perhaps not as much […]
geneology
Having a child changes a man. Perhaps not as much as it changes a woman but a fair bit. A friend of mine recently had his first kid and decided to take up hunting. He’s a successful nurse in a big-time hospital but somewhere deep inside him, he wanted to know he could provide meat […]
It’s been almost a year since I wrote about my genetic testing results from 23andMe. That’s because, despite paying $5 a month for the site’s mandatory Personal Genome Service®, I rarely look at it. It’s not that I’m scared of the data (been there), and not because I forgot — every six or eight weeks I get […]