When I was growing up, my father and I were very close. In the summers, I helped him on the farm by driving the tractor while he either tied bags of wheat being harvested by his large combine or loaded bales of hay on the wagon after the baling machine had done its job. Today … [Read more…]
When Steve and I married in 1965, he was considered to be tall at six feet, one inch. Today that’s an ordinary height. Look at the heights of college basketball players, averaging 6′ 7″. When we first married, mushrooms were such a luxury that we could not afford them. Now we can get a can … [Read more…]
The Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park in Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, is a place everyone should visit. What is so inspiring about this national park? I’ll attempt to explain. Well before the formation of our National Park System in 1916, the park was established by the U. S. Congress in 1890. It was dedicated jointly … [Read more…]
As everyone has been discussing New Year’s Resolutions–whether to make them or not, how to keep them, if they’re a good idea–I’m reminded of my mother’s annual insistence that we write our New Year’s resolutions. Last year I wrote about her resolutions made in 1973 and worked on until she breathed her last on January … [Read more…]
Aunts and uncles, nieces and nephews! What treasures we have in our own families—treasures to tap and treasures to offer. Last week my niece graduated from Vanderbilt University—one in a class of 1004. (And that was only the Bachelor’s Degree people!) Steve and I made a special effort to be there, and she was very appreciative. The … [Read more…]
A friend recently invited me to a luncheon at her house because “my Kenton County friends want to meet my Campbell County friends.” Her invitation said that her golfing friends wanted to meet her non-golfing friends, which must boil down to the same thing. That made me think about how I group my friends into … [Read more…]
