Our Brown yDNA Lineage Confirmed as Defendants of American Revolutionary Soldier-John Dunlap Brown

Hello, All of my Elders are already dead. Following the parents and siblings thru Obituaries, I follow my line on into American Revolution Soldier John Dunlap Brown and later Nimrod Doggett Brown.  But then I did a little more Checking and oh no.  My yDNA is  Paternal haplogroup R-L21 Paternal haplotype R-FGC3222 I asked AI… Continue reading Our Brown yDNA Lineage Confirmed as Defendants of American Revolutionary Soldier-John Dunlap Brown

For Bravery beyond the Call of Duty-Petty Officer 3rd Class Scott Ruskan

Photo of Scott Ruskan (Credit: Perry Shirzad, USCG) The morning of Friday, July 4, 2025, dawned with an ominous sky over Central Texas. For 26-year-old Petty Officer 3rd Class Scott Ruskan, a U.S. Coast Guard rescue swimmer stationed at Air Station Corpus Christi, it was supposed to be a routine duty day. Little did he… Continue reading For Bravery beyond the Call of Duty-Petty Officer 3rd Class Scott Ruskan

“I hope you don’t go through life so fast that you miss it,” my father said

The Texas sun, a molten disc in the rearview mirror, stretched the shadow of my ’69 Pontiac Bonneville four-door into an endless, shimmering ribbon behind us. At sixteen, with a V8 roaring beneath the hood, the world was a blur of mesquite and fence posts. Sweetwater to Gatesville was a highway hymn, and 90 mph… Continue reading “I hope you don’t go through life so fast that you miss it,” my father said