Dirty hands reaching out finger printing a mother's heart as well as her dress...Little boys rough and tumble in the mud at all the wrong times causing mother extra work, and hidden smiles behind complaints. Sign in to see full entry.
Sunday, March 10, 2013
Friday, March 8, 2013
A Lane mini-cedar chest Gift to graduating high school girls 1955 Still smells of cedar 2013 Filled with teen love letters Written by a boy Who didn't really know how To write love letters Covered with pink lipstick kisses Tied with a pink ribbon Locked with a tiny key I don't know why I still keep... Sign in to see full entry.
Sunday, February 10, 2013
What I Didn't Do!
Monster Jam, Motocross and Demolition Derby are not events that I would wish to attend for my own entertainment, or even out of my own curiosity. But, it is amazing what a grandma might do for her grandson. Back in the days when Grandson Peter was a young teen, and his mother and step-father were... Sign in to see full entry.
Friday, February 1, 2013
Rainy Day Trunk
Even then, in the 1940's, it badly needed restoring. As a child I didn't even see the wear and tear it had sustained through the years. I only saw magic, a magic that mother shared with her little daughters on a rainy day when the mood was right. Worn and weathered, it had traveled across the ocean... Sign in to see full entry.
Saturday, January 26, 2013
Now vs Then
" Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party." T hen was 1956, when I first took a typing class in high school. I'd never had a typewriter, never used one, we didn't have one in our home. And, of course, in those days there was nothing technical with a keyboard that might... Sign in to see full entry.
Saturday, January 19, 2013
"Mashed Potatoes" Wasn't Something You Eat
How much time, as a teen, did I spend snapping these in and out of my 45's and spinning them with my friends and breaking out into a jitterbug, or swing, Lindy, the rock'n'roll, boogie-woogie or Bop? I'll never know, but it was a lot, whenever my Dad wasn't home....He liked lots of silence.... Sign in to see full entry.
Thursday, January 17, 2013
Lost Dinosaur
No one ever found Starke's dinosaur remains in the middle of the wastelands of Kansas, south of WaKeeney and West of Utica, after he died in that crash. Not even Son can find it even though he was helping work on one of the dinosaur's feet with a little brush. It is such a vast, empty, rocky place... Sign in to see full entry.
Sunday, January 6, 2013
Disney Forever
Ever since Grandson Phil was a tiny baby he has loved anything Disney. In a month, he will be 27 years old (physically) but remains ever and always about two mentally and socially. He still is mad about anything Disney (or things of that caliber). One of his most favorite activities is to watch any... Sign in to see full entry.
Thursday, December 13, 2012
The Rest Of The "As I Remember It" Tale
On the banks of the Roubidoux, near the Big Spring, on the Kickapoo Trace, in the beautiful Ozarks of Missouri is Waynesville, the seat of Pulaski County. The old county courthouse sits in the middle of town, a 1903 austere brick building with stark courtrooms furnished with hard oak pews and rails... Sign in to see full entry.
As I Remember It
She's been gone now for eleven years, but it seems like yesterday that I drove down with her to the County Seat in the Ozark country for moral support as she had to answer a subpoena for a case of Alienation of Affection and she was a bit nervous about the whole thing. It all began back in the... Sign in to see full entry.