Courage of a Hero

In last week’s blog post, people wondered about A Quirky Old Man who every Friday evening would walk to the end of a fishing pier with a bucket of shrimp to feed the seagulls.  This week’s blog post explains why he did this.  It’s called Courage of a Hero. On one of his flying missions across the Pacific, Captain Eddie Rickenbacker and his six-member crew looked for the island of destination.  They never spotted it and could not get bearings from the ill-equipped island.   They were nearly out of fuel and knew once they crashed into the sea, they Read More

But, Times Change, and People Change

As a young girl, I remember going with my family to visit my grandmother.  She greeted my older brother and me with a hug, a big smile, and a plate of white sugar cookies.  She wore a dark dress with black tie shoes.  She  fixed her silver-gray hair in a bun.  She was kind, and I loved her.  As I look back, life seemed simple.  But, times change and people change. When my mother was 19, she left her home town on a Greyhound Bus for the seventy-mile trip to Minneapolis.  Alone.  She worked as a maid for a well-to-do Read More

Restored

My husband bought an old, dilapidated hoosier.  When Burt brought it home, I raised my eyebrows in wonderment.   The wood looked like it had been starved of oil for a half century, the latches sported deep-seated rust, and the work surface displayed dents, pits and more rust.  A pathetic example of what was formerly a farm woman’s pride and joy as well as the essential cupboard in her kitchen.  “What was he thinking?”  “I’m going to restore it good as new, ” Burt announced.  “Well, I hope,” he muttered under his breath. I looked at him and gave him a Read More