Halloween
Over the years my kids have had some pretty fun Halloween experiences. For instance, the time Teresa won a prize for her costume, an...
Homestead Festival 48 Years & Counting
September 6, 1972, was the weekend of our first Homestead Festival. It was a pretty weekend, hot and the air was smoky from the Pork...
Fair Week
It was Bureau County Fair Week. It was August. It was hot and dusty. My husband, Buck, had spent the last week, days and evenings,...
Summer Treats
Way back when, I lived with my grandma in Greeley, Colorado. I stayed with her for a year. I was in the third grade. My dad was...
Father's Day
I’ve thought a lot about my dad lately. I’m not sure why, maybe my age. My dad has been gone forty years. Honestly, we didn’t have the...
Graduation
It must have been all the prayers asking for good weather because it was a perfect weekend for graduation. The parties were a different...
Treasures
“One man’s junk is another man’s treasure”. I don’t know who said that, but someone did many long years ago. I tried to find the source...
Spring Showers
This is a rainy Monday morning, in the last week of April. Karen Carpenter sang, “Rainy Days And Mondays Always Get Me Down.” Not me. I...
Nostalgia
In today’s world we search for good news. If you watch cable news networks and listen to radio, you will be hard put to find any. Maybe...
Augusta
You may or may not be a fan of the game of golf. But during this week in Augusta, Georgia, there is a battle going on that equals the...