When I was in elementary school sometimes on a Saturday I went to a friend’s house to play. She and I had fashion dolls that were precursors to Barbie, who hadn’t been “born” yet....
Last night I watched a Netflix documentary on Ed Sullivan. The same Ed Sullivan I disliked and disparaged for taking over our living room every Sunday night when I was a kid…………….until he brought...
“You from east of the mountains?” That’s what the checkout person at Ace Hardware asked me. He was putting my phone number in their system and was taken aback by my 509 area code....
“It’s a beautiful day in Three Lakes, Wisconsin.” That’s how the broadcast from the town near us invariably started. “It’s a beautiful day in Three Lakes, Wisconsin.” Might have been sunny and 75°. Might...
From time to time I go online and research relatives.The older I get, the more I want to know about the people who were here before me. In my mind it’s a way of...
I’ve been watching a TV show called “The Last Alaskans”. The series follows seven families who each have a lease inside the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The leases last until the death of the...
I got a letter in the mail yesterday. It might well have been a love letter, from my overjoyed reaction. It was from the mother of a friend of my son’s. She lives about...
I’ve heard once you learn, you never forget how to ride a bike. I didn’t forget how, but it turns out I can’t ride my bike anymore. It’s a beautiful 24-speed TREK and I’ve...
Over the 50-plus years my husband and I have been married, we’ve lived in houses in eight different states. During that time, the floors were mostly carpeted and I didn’t give them much thought...
I just came home from spending a week in the hospital on IV antibiotics after I contracted some powerful bacterial infection from a scrape on my arm. I’m happy to be alive. Happy that...
