No laughing matter
Here are more thoughts from my mother. The old man waited and waited in the doctor’s office. Then he waited some more. At great length his patience gave out. Leaning…
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Mother was a drop-out, part 4
A few years later … By this time teachers’ salaries were going up. The amount depended on years of training and years of experience. A Masters’ Degree would be very…
Mother was a drop-out, part 3
To enter college, one signed a paper telling age, high school attended, and parents’ names. That was it. If you could pay tuition, you could enter. PK’s got a reduction…
Mother was a drop-out, part 2
Freshmen took whatever subjects they were assigned. I took Algebra I, English I, Biology, Home Ec, and Physical Education. After that year, students chose their “course” and took whatever subjects…
Mother was a drop-out, part 1
Here’s another one of Mom’s yarns. School days began at Sterling Elementary School. It was about two blocks from home if I went out the back way. (Be sure to…
Just an old door
Mother told me this story. On a cold December day in 1899 the young man shoved the old door open. Then lifting his bride as though she were light as…
Quinkydinks
When my son was a young man, if something unusual would happen, my wife or I might use the term coincidence. Unable to say the word, he pronounced it “quinkydinks.”…
Who will can the peaches?
Do you remember family stories or do you remember everyone else telling you the family stories? I think I remember. The assembly line was working well. Mother had washed the…
Surprise!
The girl (my mother) was going to be 14. For weeks she had planned her birthday party. When one is in the eighth grade, parties are very special. This was…
When a girl wants her wheels
Here is another story from my mother, Dorothy Howard Adler. She was such a little girl – a baby, really. At 10 months she began walking, and at one and…