Month: April 2003

I ripped through the layers of brown paper wrapping my unexpected package last week to find a car shaped tin filled with candy laying on a quilt top of denim blue cotton alternating with blue and red patches. Unfolded the quilt top became a skirt. A couple of enclosed notes and a phone call revealed…

I was sure I wanted to be a Bible Club Movement teacher like Miss G when I grew up. I wanted to have a wooden tripod I would carry between classes as well as a folded board covered with plain flannel with a sheets of flannel picture backgrounds clipped to it. Miss G also carried…

The old trunk tucked back in a corner of the house held a lot of memories – along with the wedding dress her grandmother wore in 1947 and her mother wore in 1974, according to my nephew’s wife. The satin gown, covered with lace and hand-sewn pearls at the yolk, designed and fitted for Grandmother’s…

My son figured out that my hyperactivity before last summer’s wedding crashed into depression in the fall. He pragmatically detailed the pattern to me, told me he would marry in August and promised to visit in the fall – to cheer me up. He needs to cheer me up? I looked up the symptoms of…