Leaves On My Tree

 Tomorrow is my father's birthday. On September 1 this year he would have been 93. My father was the quiet strength of our family. He ...

My mother's birthday was the 20th of August. She would have been 90 years old this year. I have written before about the woman she was...

I have put off getting my hair cut for far too long. As an older woman I really need shorter hair. Long hair and gravity tend to make the f...

I had always lived in Nebraska. We lived in many little towns and on many farms but they were all in Nebraska. Then Daddy got a job on a d...

After my father died Mom lived in that big house for a while. Then she decided that it was simply too big for a woman living alone. She m...

My parents lived in that house for a long time. Two of my brothers had been drafted into the Army. My sister finally returned home.  Two br...

The stories of my family moving to Detroit is being interrupted. I have a humorous and sad tale to tell. Quite by accident we found out s...