Lessons from Betty Crocker and Grandma Janet
Leah is four going on fourteen. She thinks she can do anything her brother or older cousins can do. So, on Saturday evening Leah came to my house and we…
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Purple medicine, a cat clock and Dr. Kraft
Several times a week I pass by a large older house on the northwest corner of 10th and Cherry Streets. That house holds a lot of memories for not just…
A few rocks and a lot of nice
It was Friday morning and Mom and I were waiting at the surgery center for her to have a procedure on her esophagus. She leaned back on the pillow and…
The little train that no longer will
It was the spring of the year I was in the fourth grade. 1966. There were 36 kids and one, first year teaching, teacher packed into the car of the…
What worries me
A wise man once told me that everyone needs one…a Worry Tree. Whenever you have something at work that is troubling you, he said, “Don’t take it home with you….
Royal Blue or Miller gold?
I walked down the aisle at the Castleton United Methodist Church that day and made several promises to Chuck and he made several to me. To love and to cherish…
Keeping track of my ducks
“I don’t have all, not even some, of my ducks in a row. But they’re all in the same pond, so I have that going for me which is cool.”…
Quilting the fabric of my life
It was Sunday dinner at my mom’s when she asked me to go look for a quilt that she thought was tucked in between the mattress and the antique coil…