The Perfect Red Dress
Reading the obituaries isn’t always a somber event. Sometimes I see one that brings up a great memory and even makes me smile. I recently saw one like that. The mother of a long-ago friend, Eva, had...
View Articletwo different specialists …
When I walked up to the express lane at the grocery, a man was patiently trying to feed a coupon into the designated slot. After he tried unsuccessfully a couple times, I really looked at him for the...
View ArticleAn inspiring 9/11 story you may not have heard …
When I saw this video I was shocked that there is any aspect of the 9/11 tragedy and its heroes that I hadn’t heard of before. But here is a wonderful story that deserves wide circulation. I am...
View ArticleA Fun Lunch in Tulsa
While we were in Tulsa recently, Carla from Carla-at-Home and her husband were there too, so the four of us met for lunch. We had a great time. I had talked to Carla on the phone so I already knew...
View ArticleBonnie
Hubby has lots of family in this area and Bonnie was the wife of one of his cousins. They lived in a town about a half hour away so we didn’t run into them much, but we did always see them at family...
View ArticleJean and The Hand-Me-Down Suit
I had three older sisters to idolize, but they were significantly older (teenagers when I was born). Because of that age difference I really never got to be one of the crowd — just the little sister...
View ArticleMeat Market Mentors
There is a family who have had a meat market in town for several generations. At one time I think there were four brothers working in the business and now their off-spring run several locations. When...
View ArticleTake a Line for a Walk
My brother and Page (Call Me Nana tells about my memories of her) have a very talented granddaughter named Alex. She is a wonderful photographer and artist and is a grade school art teacher....
View ArticleA week like no other …
My two sisters and my brother came for a visit a couple weeks ago. For five days we visited, laughed, ate and played Yahtzee. Betty is 82 and Martha is 79. Maybe I’m biased, but I think they look...
View ArticleMemories came to visit
About two weeks ago we got a call from Phil who had been one of Hubby’s classmates in the police management institute at Northwestern University in 1980/81. Hubby is on the left, Phil in the middle...
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