Month: July 2023

At every reunion of the Jefferson class of 1959, folks puzzled over Wayne Hostetler. “We haven’t seen anything of him since graduation. I heard he went to Colorado.” Only speculations kept his memory alive among the remaining nine members of the original 29. Not only had the 29 alumni spent 12 school years together, but…

Hubby and I like to share experiences: traveling, ethnic meals, audiobooks, and hobbies. We didn’t exactly share sciatic nerve pain (SNP), we just both have had episodes. I began with nagging pain after years of typing at work. I tried stretching and shaking off that chronic, annoying leg pain. At a fast food joint, a…

“I did not know that,” I told my husband when I finished listening to the audio version of Louisa June and the Nazis in the Waves.” “What didn’t you know?” he asked. “That hundreds of tankers, shipping boats and tug boats were sunk by five Nazi Uboats between January and July 1942. The Germans wanted…

`“Don’t take my picture!” Mr. Aaron Skiles said, as I photographed his wife, Elizabeth Skiles while she sat working on a quilt in the quilting frame. I nodded that I understood. I hid my disappointment. I really wanted a photo of the trim, 78 year-old man with his white beard and hair, black suspenders over…

For 100 years the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington Cemetery near Washington D.C. has memorialized all the unidentified soldiers who died fighting for our nation’s freedom. For 300 years, another tomb in ancient Israel memorialized an unnamed prophet’s last prophetic message. The nameless prophet arrived in Bethel one day with a message for…