Grab your favorite cup and get comfortable.
Welcome To Firepoint Cafe!
Cafes hold a special place in many cultures and communities as gathering spots for people to engage in conversation and share ideas. There is an enduring appeal of cafes, making them an integral parts of people’s lives that they return to again, and again. I invite you to step inside Firepoint Cafe, grab your favorite cup of something and find something that will spark conversation and inspiration.
My Hero Ancestors
This year I had time to really dig into my family ancestry on Ancestry.com and I kept finding stories about my ancestors that blew me away. They faced challenges or opportunities that must have seemed daunting and scary at the time. But they made decisions that...
Experiments In My Kitchen: Greek Yogurt and Ricotta Cheese
Experiments In My Kitchen: Greek Yogurt and Ricotta Cheese I'm recently retired and have more time on my hands to experiment in the kitchen. I absolutely love Greek yogurt, especially the unflavored, unsweetened variety because I can control the amount of sweetness in...
Foods that connect you to your ancestors
The photo above is my Dad, Bob Seidel, carefully checking ingredients for Czech dumplings that my son Josh is making I recently started working on my family ancestry using Ancestry.com. My father, Bob Seidel, was the youngest son of two Czech immigrants, Rose and Emil...
Firepoint Inspiration >> Hit Repeat
I enjoy walking the trails at Nature At The Confluence several times a week and finding new things to see and hear, and finding new ways to experience nature. It’s never the same walk, as new things are exposed, or even obscured as the season changes. Even the time of day I visit makes a difference because the lighting changes what I see, or how I see it.
I encourage you to “Find “Your Place” by choosing one place to visit through the seasons, such as a park, and make it “your place”, or it could even be one small place in that park, such as log or rock you sit on, noticing all the ways your place changes through the season. Intentionally see it with new eyes and new ears, and I think you’ll leave your “place” with a renewed spirit. Watch the “Hit Repeat” video for inspiration. All photos in “Hit Repeat” were captured by Therese Oldenburg as she walked the trails at Nature At The Confluence throughout the seasons.