Tom McGee's Blog

The Last First Day Of School

September 5th, 2008 | 4 Comments | Family |

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Happy Belated Birthday

June 3rd, 2008 | 1 Comment | Family |

Birthday greetings to young Tim McGee, who turned 48 yesterday. Keep this up, and you’ll hit 50 before you know it.

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Cleveland Wrap-up

May 26th, 2008 | 3 Comments | Family, Home, Travelogues |

I got back Saturday night from my trip to Ohio for my aunt’s funeral. Nobody likes funerals of course, nor the deaths of loved ones. But one of the things you learn while mourning a relative who has died is how many of them have not. So after a few days I was happy. Happy [...]

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Friday Night at the Lit

May 23rd, 2008 | 0 Comments | Entertainment, Family, Home |

We had a mini-family reunion at the Literary Cafe tonight. Here’s Denise Santa Maria, cousin Shari Bruce and her husband Rey.


And me, Carol Kerslake, and Vern Morrison.

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Sarah McGee

May 18th, 2008 | 3 Comments | Family, Home |

Sad news, my aunt Sarah died this afternoon after a long illness. Sarah was the mother of our regular contributor Shari, and as warm and generous a person as you’d ever want to meet. Please take a moment to post a condolence, thanks.

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Traffic Ahead

April 18th, 2008 | 6 Comments | Family, Home |

Congrats to Claire, who got her license today.

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Merry Christmas From All Of Us

December 18th, 2007 | 1 Comment | Family, Home |

The tree is up in the lobby here at tom-mcgee.com world headquarters in beautiful Maplewood. Oops, forgot the star. We’ll get to that soon. Let me share something I like about Christmas. Daughter No. 1 took it on herself to pick out a few ornaments and put them up in a grouping together. The five [...]

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Cruising Family History

August 7th, 2007 | 14 Comments | Family, Home, Travelogues |

Travelling out to Ohio yesterday, I decided to do a little family history detective work. I took the kids on a side trip to Butler, PA, which is where my dad’s side of the family hails from. Using some info that my cousin Shari found, as well as some I tracked down on my own, I found this building, where my grandfather was born.

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The Ancients

July 2nd, 2007 | 0 Comments | Family |

My cousin Shari posted this photo on an online genealogy board, one I’d never seen before. It’s a picture of my great-grandfather Benjamin McGee.

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