Well, here I am in what I am told is a forever home, whatever that means. Last week I was living in a cage with a lot of other noisy smelly dogs. When one or more irritated me I would bark and snarl at them to show everyone how important I was. Suddenly the humans […]
It was chilly outside but a nice fire in the fireplace kept me warm and cozy. I felt peaceful and relaxed while watching a few deer leisurely wandering through the yard, munching on leaves, and glancing in the window as they passed. I was spending a week alone in my sister’s cabin on Center Island […]
We all know the phrase “What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas,” well I am about to break that rule. It all began the week before Mother’s Day. My daughter Joy and I went to visit her son, Greg, and his wife, Sara at their lovely home in Henderson, a suburb of Las Vegas. They […]
Come to the beach! Have you any idea what these words can mean to a young mother who has struggled through a long, cold, snowy winter with three small children? Well, they sound like a heavenly offer and that is what happened to me when I lived in Virginia and my mom and dad lived […]
Mom and I decided we wanted to do something different for the holidays this year, therefore we started thinking about where we could go which was unusual. When I first began researching, I had it in mind that we would go somewhere that had snow and have a real white Christmas like we hadn’t experienced […]
Twenty-six-year-old Ivy Kennedy boldly set forth on a trip from Iowa to South Dakota in about 1906. It must have been an arduous trip in the early 1900s to travel from Iowa across South Dakota to Deadwood, which I imagine may still have been a bit like the old wild west, although trains were replacing […]
I believe I have mentioned before how gypsy-like my life had been. In the first five years of my life, I lived in three or four different places. My parents were divorced when I was just a baby and due to a contested custody battle, I was passed around in the family. My actual memories […]
There was a time in this great land of ours when taking a trip across the country by train was considered an adventure. Adventure in my mind means a thrilling or exciting experience. I, however, had an adventure on a train that was neither thrilling nor exciting but rather an unpleasant, disagreeable event; one that […]
One might expect an army wife, who had to pack up her whole life every year or two to follow her husband’s assignments, would welcome a chance to settle down forever in her retirement years. My mom, however, was not such a woman. She had always dreamed of traveling the world. After my dad died […]
I had been my Mom’s caregiver for about six years, and after she died I was rather at loose ends. My daughter said, “ You need a dog to keep you company,” and that is how Hero came into my life. I went to the shelter and looked at all the lonely fur babies. Some […]