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Have a great day!
Juliana

Using E-mails for Journaling
What spurred this email was your comment on keeping a journal or scrapbook for your trip. I have a group of friends to whom I send nightly emails, recording my adventures of the day, and laying out my plans for the next day. I save a copy of the email in my "sent folder" and save their replies in a folder labeled "trip". This is an easy way to keep a diary!

Also, since I am a woman traveling alone, it gives everyone the reassurance that I am still okay. I was warned that two days without hearing from me, and they would be sending out the highway patrol. Actually, I think this is a good piece of advice for women traveling alone.

Terry Bruce
Newport, Oregon

Chicago Catholic Cemeteries
The worker at All Saints cemetery in Des Plaines was a godsend. He told us that the archdiocese was putting a kiosk in at different catholic cemeteries in Chicago. These computers will print out where your loved-one is buried, with a little map to help you find the grave. We used this Kiosk at Queen of Heaven cemetery to find someone at Mt. Carmel and I now have a nice printout to put in my family book.

Sheryl Hooper-Folena
Elgin, IL

Show Those Home Movies
W e used to show our children movies that an uncle took of us when we were kids. Like Juliana said in her column on June 20, the kids got a kick out of seeing the "old fashioned" hair and clothes. (Actually, even the adults liked this.) The children also liked seeing their relatives as they looked when they were younger. Mom, Dad, aunts, uncles, and grandparents weren't "born old.”

Judy