Carol – The Early Days
Ha! Don’t you love that title? I found this photo on one of my disks. These are all photos of me as a child. The top left photo is of my brother,Terrell, my sister Janice and me when we lived in...
View ArticleThree men in my life
This is a photo taken in the 1960’s when we lived in Ellijay, Georgia. My mother made matching robes for all the girls in the family, and she also made matching robes for all the guys in the family....
View ArticleThursday Thirteen – Thirteen Things I Loved About My Trip To NYC
I spent last week in NYC. I went there to attend the February Institute at Teachers College of Columbia University. Classes were from 8:00 A.M. to 4:00 P.M. each day. Once classes were over and we...
View ArticleMy Mother and all seven siblings – together briefly today
Today was my cousin Don’s memorial service in Georgia. At the service, my mother and all my siblings and I were together for awhile. It has been a couple years since we’d been altogether, and it...
View ArticleOfficer Don and the Popeye Club
I attended my cousin Don’s memorial service today. Don worked for WSB radio and television many years ago. Then he went on to work for CNN for about fifteen years after that. During his early years at...
View ArticleBirthday thoughts of my father
Yesterday on the way home from the school, I mentioned to the grandgirls that today would have been my father’s 89th birthday. Sweet Stuff: “He never got to know us.” Sunshine: “No, he doesn’t know...
View Article16 Questions Life Review Meme
There was an article in Sunday’s paper that was an interview between a father and son. I had never heard of either, but I found myself intrigued by the questions that were asked. So I have revised...
View ArticleDr. Michael Mitchell, Anchorage wedding pastor – R.I.P.
I am sad. I was looking at my sitemeter awhile ago, and saw that someone had Googled “Weddings in Alaska” and had ended up at my blog. I reread the post I wrote about RT’s and my wedding in Alaska in...
View ArticleSixty Things I’ve Learned in Sixty Years
A few days ago I wrote that my upcoming sixtieth birthday was distressing to me. Sixty is like a line of demarcation. Once you’re on the back side of sixty, you know without a doubt you’re well into...
View ArticleThe Good Old Days of 2007 – 2010
(Sophie, Carol, Lily on the last day of school for students Walnut Grove Elementary, May 2010) As I walked out of Walnut Grove Elementary school on May 24, 2010 – my last day of teaching before...
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