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Paula W
@toomuchbrudders.bsky.social
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Happily retired. Voracious reader 📚💙(inherited Folio Society editions), family-tree researcher/storyteller ☘️, TooMuchBrudders.com family blogger. Married to 5th generation farmer. My grandson calls me Goose. 🇺🇸 🇮🇪 🇩🇪 🇨🇦 🇫🇷 🇬🇧
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Paula W @toomuchbrudders.bsky.social · 1d
#NowReading 📚💙

It is time.
Title page of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Folio Society edition
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Paula W @toomuchbrudders.bsky.social · 1d
Here are some treasured family ☘️ portraits, along with a poem from my mom: toomuchbrudders.com/2020/01/05/p... #familyhistory #poetry #irishgenealogy
Portraits | Cassidy wedding in 1929 | Too Much Brudders blog
Mom's poem about a childhood portrait of each parent brings us to 1929 and the Cassidy wedding. The portrait shows a family united by love.
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Paula W @toomuchbrudders.bsky.social · 2d
My great-grandmother, who emigrated from Ireland in 1888, rarely left her house in New Haven. Only when she was truly needed: toomuchbrudders.com/2021/10/01/t... ☘️ #poem #irishgenealogy #poetry #familyhistory #Connecticut
The healer | Gram's whiskey | Too Much Brudders blog
Margaret Kelly Regan was a homebody and teetotaler. But when Gram's granddaughters were in pain, she grabbed her whiskey bottle and set out.
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Paula W @toomuchbrudders.bsky.social · 2d
Our grandson, 9, chose this (unfortunately) trendy #Halloween costume four years ago, so we researched what a plague doctor was really all about: toomuchbrudders.com/2021/10/14/t... #familyhistory 🎃
The Halloween costume | Too Much Brudders blog
Cameron's choice for Halloween costume this year should have come as no surprise. He and I spent a fine afternoon researching its origins.
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Paula W @toomuchbrudders.bsky.social · 3d
Hamlet gets pretty spooky …
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Hamlet by William Shakespeare Folio Society edition
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Paula W @toomuchbrudders.bsky.social · 3d
🫐 A 1973 poem by my mom, touched that a former neighbor would send a garden update: toomuchbrudders.com/2025/10/12/r... #poetry #nature #autumn #familyhistory
'Roots' | Too Much Brudders blog
The story of the Connecticut blueberry bushes that only really came to full color and production after we'd moved away.
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Paula W @toomuchbrudders.bsky.social · 4d
Madeleine was perplexed, too, I recently discovered, reading her correspondence with my mom: toomuchbrudders.com/2025/10/10/m... I wanted to write about their friendship, and the topic of censorship took over. 🤷‍♀️
Love & blessings, Madeleine L'Engle | Too Much Brudders blog
My mom was dear friends with A Wrinkle in Time author Madeleine L'Engle. Here are some of their letters from over the years.
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Paula W @toomuchbrudders.bsky.social · 4d
Ahh, Bill - we meet again! All it took was a search for all things Madeleine L’Engle after writing about her friendship with my poet mom: toomuchbrudders.com/2025/10/10/m...
Love & blessings, Madeleine L'Engle | Too Much Brudders blog
My mom was dear friends with A Wrinkle in Time author Madeleine L'Engle. Here are some of their letters from over the years.
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Paula W @toomuchbrudders.bsky.social · 4d
She and my mom were dear friends. I found some correspondence recently that details Madeleine’s reaction to the bans: toomuchbrudders.com/2025/10/10/m... #banned
Love & blessings, Madeleine L'Engle | Too Much Brudders blog
My mom was dear friends with A Wrinkle in Time author Madeleine L'Engle. Here are some of their letters from over the years.
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Paula W @toomuchbrudders.bsky.social · 4d
Did you know Wrinkle was a top banned book in the 1990s? Madeleine L’Engle struggled with the very idea of censoring books, as I learned while recently reading her correspondence with my poet mom: toomuchbrudders.com/2025/10/10/m... #bannedbooks 📚💙
Love & blessings, Madeleine L'Engle | Too Much Brudders blog
My mom was dear friends with A Wrinkle in Time author Madeleine L'Engle. Here are some of their letters from over the years.
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Paula W @toomuchbrudders.bsky.social · 4d
Born on this day in 1863, my great-grandfather Patrick Cassidy began life in Dublin. ☘️ He was a policeman in his homeland and his new land, after immigrating to New Haven: toomuchbrudders.com/2021/02/03/t... #familyhistory #irishgenealogy #BOTD #Connecticut #genealogy
The policeman | Patrick Cassidy | Too Much Brudders blog
Patrick Cassidy was a policeman in Dublin, Ireland, and New Haven, Connecticut. Patrick Cassidy was my great-grandfather.
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Paula W @toomuchbrudders.bsky.social · 4d
I pre-ordered Nobody’s Girl from bookshop.org 📚💡 #booksky
Nobody’s Girl book cover
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Paula W @toomuchbrudders.bsky.social · 4d
My poet mom was good friends with Madeleine L’Engle and left me archives with her reaction to the bans and challenges: toomuchbrudders.com/2025/10/10/m...
Love & blessings, Madeleine L'Engle | Too Much Brudders blog
My mom was dear friends with A Wrinkle in Time author Madeleine L'Engle. Here are some of their letters from over the years.
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Paula W @toomuchbrudders.bsky.social · 5d
Some thoughts from a perplexed Madeleine L’Engle, whose A Wrinkle in Time was high on those #bannedbooks lists in the 1990s: toomuchbrudders.com/2025/10/10/m...
Love & blessings, Madeleine L'Engle | Too Much Brudders blog
My mom was dear friends with A Wrinkle in Time author Madeleine L'Engle. Here are some of their letters from over the years.
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Paula W @toomuchbrudders.bsky.social · 5d
The story of my poet mom’s friendship with Madeleine L’Engle:
toomuchbrudders.com/2025/10/10/m... #familyhistory #bannedbooks #nowreading #poem 📚💙 @tesserwell.bsky.social
Love & blessings, Madeleine L'Engle | Too Much Brudders blog
My mom was dear friends with A Wrinkle in Time author Madeleine L'Engle. Here are some of their letters from over the years.
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Paula W @toomuchbrudders.bsky.social · 5d
That 1917 military form has been incredibly helpful with tidbits of information, with my male Connecticut ancestors. For example, my great-grandfather couldn’t operate a wireless, but could handle a team of horses.
Joseph Malachy Regan photo portrait
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Paula W @toomuchbrudders.bsky.social · 5d
The Longest Day 📚💡
The Longest Day book cover #FolioSociety
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Paula W @toomuchbrudders.bsky.social · 6d
Wish I could go back and spell retiree correctly (sans accent). Guess I got too excited that I knew how to add an accent mark, and equated it to fiancée). 🤦‍♀️
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Paula W @toomuchbrudders.bsky.social · 6d
… and to remember. ❤️
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Paula W @toomuchbrudders.bsky.social · 6d
This is a sad one:
A missing person a century ago - assumed to be a murder: toomuchbrudders.com/2025/10/02/g...
Gone missing | John Fieth | Too Much Brudders blog
A cold case from the family archives, as we learn about the mysterious disappearance of John Fieth in 1923.
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Paula W @toomuchbrudders.bsky.social · 6d
Here’s one story from our southern Indiana family: toomuchbrudders.com/2023/03/22/t... #genealogy
The priest | Fr. Boniface | Too Much Brudders blog
We look back to the 1800s and discover a family member who became a priest. Fr. Boniface was a young boy named Peter when he came to America.
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Paula W @toomuchbrudders.bsky.social · 6d
He was Farmer Gary’s grandmother’s older brother. He trained to be a soldier during WWI. On this day in 1918, he died. Here’s his story: toomuchbrudders.com/2019/10/08/a... #otd #farmlife #pandemic #WWI #familyhistory
A soldier's story | Private John Wigger | Too Much Brudders blog
Gary's great-uncle Private John Wigger left the family farm in late summer of 1918 to train to fight in World War I. Here's his story.
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Paula W @toomuchbrudders.bsky.social · 7d
For #BannedBooksWeek, here are three banned book recommendations: toomuchbrudders.com/2022/02/28/f... 📚💙 #banned
Forbidden February | Banned books | Too Much Brudders blog
February's book choices included banned and challenged books. Turning our backs on topics that make us uncomfortable is never the answer.
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Paula W @toomuchbrudders.bsky.social · 7d
My poet mom was fascinated with this concept: toomuchbrudders.com/2021/07/14/t... #poem
Tollund Man | Iron Age relic | Too Much Brudders blog
Tollund Man was discovered in 1950. Twenty-one years later, Mom wrote a poem about him. It took another 50 years for me to discover both.
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Paula W @toomuchbrudders.bsky.social · 7d
Farmer Gary is not a fan of cute and cuddly groundhogs: toomuchbrudders.com/2023/06/16/o... #farmlife #poetry #nature #poem
'Off with you, then!' | Groundhog | Too Much Brudders blog
Have you ever seen a groundhog up close? Just ask Farmer Gary, they're cute and cuddly ... and a pain in the neck!
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