Through the years…

Through the years, since I found the manuscript, there have been many times when I wished I could talk to my grandmother and mother about their story.  Sadly, that opportunity passed …

I wonder…

I wondered why nothing had been done with the story.  My mother was quite a reader and even had a local newspaper column for a time.  Surely if she wanted her story …

My daughter-in-law…

My daughter-in-law, Ann, suggested we carefully make a couple of copies from the original manuscript so we could at least read the story.  I needed to begin somewhere and like I …

My mother…

My mother had died and I was going through her things when there they were…those old yellowed and tattered pages of my mother’s story, the one my grandmother had written …

Once upon a time…

Once upon a time, when I was a little girl of about six years, I was rummaging around in the hall closet in the home where I grew up.  I came …