Month: October 2005

Remembering Halloween past Halloween proved a trying evening for my grandmother – who on the brightest of days – insisted her adult grandsons remove the sun glasses that masked their eyes before coming in to visit. As a resident of a small village, however, she felt obligated to open her door to the the masked…

Sometimes, you just have to do what you have to do – even if you don’t want to do it, as my parents quickly realized. By the sixth anniversary of their teenage marriage they had five children From the vantage point of having had four children later in life, my maternal grandmother observed that my…

I am so out of it. I thought having an office job meant working at my desk in a quiet, professional setting with a couple coffee breaks a day to relieve stress. Then the News-Times received an e-mail asking us to inform our readers about “Take a model train to work” day on Nov. 4…

I enjoy visiting grandchildren more when I invite them to join me in my activities. “Come break a couple eggs for tonight’s cake and help set the table.” I urge them. But they also seek to join me in my activities. When I picked up my cross stitch to while away the hours during a…

The exeprience for a Montana family proved rather short and left both with a bitter taste. sort of a let no good deed go unpunished http://www.beliefnet.com/story/174/story_17463_1.html this one had a slightly different angle. More of a feeling of realizing a bit of what it was like dealing with the frstrating system when she goes out…