Surviving a Year of Loss
As the first anniversary of my father’s death approaches (he died on January 5, 2015),
As the first anniversary of my father’s death approaches (he died on January 5, 2015),
Last week I wrote about an emergency sewing project (putting my daughter’s name on her
When I was cleaning out my parents’ house last spring, I found an old doll.
Smithsonian.com published an article on December 9, 2015, entitled “The History of the Christmas Card,”
We moved into our brand new house on a block of other brand new houses
My mother and her mother both became grandmothers at age forty-eight. My father’s mother was
Last Wednesday morning, I made pumpkin and pecan pies. Wednesday night, my husband made apple
My youngest sibling is eleven-and-a-half years younger than me, and he was not yet six
I wrote last week about the autumn of 1961, when I spent three weeks in
I’ve written before that my paternal grandfather, Laverne Ernst Claudson, was the grandparent I knew