Mom called with the news that my Aunt Audrey, who has been doing poorly for quite a while, passed on around noon ( Read more... )

Mother Emily has achieved another milestone. She's now 87 ( Read more... )

from the Lancaster Eagle Gazette, Lancaster, OH, Obituaries ( Read more... )

Mom said she enjoyed A Bride for Adam by Muriel Jensen. She has the book now. I'm not sure if I sent it to her after reading it, or if she plans to send it to me. I rarely remember generic titles, even if I did like the book.

From the Ocean Springs weekly paper. Jan. 1942 ( Read more... )

Emily knows very few young childhood stories of her first husband, Dale, but Bernice told her one that was from early childhood in connection with child-rearing advice. Her topic was "Do as I say, not as I do." Obviously, children NEVER follow that advice, and evidently learn not to quite young ( Read more... )

While we were living in Chicago before Emily's son Ray was born, her mother Louise T. came to visit. One night, Emily woke up to hear strange hooting sounds coming from the living room. Wandering out, there sat her mother, who frequently got a creative urge at night, hooting and hooting, then writing furiously ( Read more... )

Children

Jessilin -- 3-19-96

Cole Michael -- June 16-98

Jaida Jolie -- 9-29-01

Cade Austin -- 3-2-02

and the new one..

Or two...

Years ago, when I was living with Clyde and Carol (before my marriage to George, which lasted 20 years) Louise made a goose named Gus from an old coat. Carol had one exactly like it, made from that same coat, named Gertrude. For years, letters between the two lovers would fly back and forth. I'll have to ask Lou if she's found Gus again since ( Read more... )

On this day, 8-13-o8, I opend my front door, steped off the porch, and to my right sat my first turtle since 2005. "Wait a minute," I told him. I went into the kitchen, opened my loaf, and took out a slice of fresh bread. As I went to the mail box, I tore bits of bread and threw down for him. He was really brave and did not even hide his head ( Read more... )