I launched my blog “Story & History: One writer’s journey through life and time” in
My kids were born several years before the chickenpox vaccine was available. The measles/mumps/rubella vaccine
Another year has begun, and with it another round of birthdays. And another round of
Despite an early exposure to ironing (Santa left me an ironing board when I was
I wrote about one road trip from hell—a 2007 trip to New Orleans for my
I wrote two years ago about going to see Santa Claus at Lloyd Center in
In my birth family, Santa Claus brought presents to children through their high school years,
My mother collected silver souvenir spoons from foreign countries. Some showed national symbols and some
My maternal grandfather’s mother, Ada Jane Lewis Hooker, died when my grandfather was still a
For our 25th wedding anniversary in 2002, my husband and I went to Aruba. First,