Happy Saturday Morning, Mamas. While working on lessons about the Great Depression a while back, I enjoyed seeing dozens of WPA posters. People from many professions found work in the Works Progress Administration, including artists. For the next several Saturdays, I'd like to share WPA ... View Post
Capturing the Moment
I recently wrote about the lyrics that popped into Ray's head while he was out in the cold finishing up his to-do list. He was glad this his chores would "soon be o'er." We had a pretty little snow on Saturday morning. I hurried outside to gather snow for snow cream and put it in the freezer for ... View Post
The Substitute
Surely every American family has at least a few stories about how a worldwide pandemic has made things different for their family. I like the stories of creative substitutes for things that couldn't be the way they would have been a year ago. I know a young family who takes drives while listening ... View Post
Canned apples, boxed mashed potatoes, and real chickens.
Several years ago, Ray, my brother Steve, and I went out to lunch together in Nashville. Steve suggested a meat and three place in an old part of town. Ray and I had been traveling, so I was ready for something different from the cheese and crackers and peanut butter sandwiches we had been eating in ... View Post
Who made sure the clocks fell back at your house?
This weekend as Ray and I anticipated the annual fall back to standard time, we enjoyed remembering a family spring forward story from many years ago. At the time, we were living in Illinois and our parents were living in Tennessee. In those days before cell phones, calls to our parents were ... View Post
Long Before Scrolling the Internet . . . .
When our children were little, we all enjoyed playing with a toy camera that worked similarly to a View-Master. Unlike the View-Master, there were no reels to change. You simply clicked the big orange button on the front and watched one illustrated letter of the alphabet after another. I can almost ... View Post
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