My fifty-seven-year-old son, Bret, and his wife, Chris, visited over the holiday, and during dinner, our conversation focused on Christmas memories. Bret recalled that when he was sixteen, he asked that, instead of buying him gifts, we buy him silver – yes, hard to believe, but “truth is often stranger than fiction.” That’s just theContinue reading “Chris’ Christmas Memories”
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TEEN GIGGERS
TED AND I MOVED SILENTLY along a well-worn path close to the river’s edge. Moonlight lit this path and us as well, so we bent low to keep from being seen. The unceasing songs of crickets and jug-o-rum of bullfrogs filled the humid night air. But Ted and I could hear another sound, we couldContinue reading “TEEN GIGGERS”
Home Birth
RUTH WOULD ATTEST to the fact that nursing does not prevent pregnancy, since she conceived the couple’s second child while nursing, a year and a half after Elizabeth’s birth. And so, it was that on a hot summer day nineteen-year-old Ruth called from the cabin door, “Charlie, I think it’s time! You better get DocContinue reading “Home Birth”
Swamp Spruce
THE FIRST WEEK of December, Papa came home for several days before having to haul a house trailer to Florida, and while he was home, he proposed cutting some of the spruce trees that were growing in a swampy area north of the pasture. “I can haul them to Illinois and sell them for ChristmasContinue reading “Swamp Spruce”
As the Crow Flies 