From The Past

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Monday, December 30, 2013

A New Name

I wonder what it will be. Surely I will like it better than I liked the Betty Rose that my Grandma Jelinek gave to me the day she helped Old Doc St Clair deliver me in that little two-room house on the outskirts of Liberty, MO after the long, poor years when The Great Depression was over. That was... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Lost In The Past

My sons love to be lost in the remembrance of good times past. Whether it is past Halloweens or Thanksgivings or Christmases, or vacations, or grade school events, or summer activities, or playing in the snow, or chocolate-chip snickerdoodles, or onion-soup popcorn....whatever. They like... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, November 9, 2013

I Came Back

I got lost in Mother Earth News. Ciel suggested that I go there, and I did, knowing that I would not come out again for hours and hours. It was like going back home when you can't go back home again. My life has been one long bit of pioneering and I just love my life...from first remembrance until... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Whatever Happened to Stuart Little?

In 1945, in New York City, Stuart Little (a talking rodent) was born to human parents. Surviving living in a family which included a large cat, and adventures in Central Park, he went on to make a film in 1999 which combined live-action with computer animation. Then, I lost contact with him. Today,... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, October 21, 2013

The Littles - Book 2

For Great-Grandbaby Marianna The little girl did not know that she was poor. Her mama and daddy never told her she was poor. Her two big sisters never told her she was poor. Her little sisters and little brother did not know they were poor. They all lived in a little house together. The potty was... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, October 20, 2013

When I Was Twenty-Five

Twenty-five I was when The CHIEFS became a part of Kansas City. That happens to be fifty-one years ago. I feel as if it has been my whole adult life that I have been rooting for them, often disappointed by them, but always giving them the benefit of the doubt that next year would be better. Famous... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, October 15, 2013

The Littles

After posting about wanting to write a children's book for my Great-grandbaby Marianna ( Go to Gonna Have To Write Her One ), I decided to try. So this is what I have been doing for the last half-hour. Following is what I came up with for now. It is a story of my childhood. I was the third child... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, October 6, 2013

The Way We Were

I can still see it in my mind, as it was the first time ever I saw it, spooky in it's emptiness, waiting, waiting, waiting for objects no longer needed but too precious to discard. I can still see it in my mind, as it was the last time I saw it--thirty-plus years later, so full of dusty memorabilia... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, October 4, 2013

Nope! Didn't Think It Would

Just checking in to see if my Rainy Day Pondering came back. Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, October 3, 2013

Rainy Day Pondering

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