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  • Christmas 2025

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    The holidays are looming. Perhaps that is not the best choice of words. When things like finances, relationships, health, and  work are going well, holidays enhance  the good feelings. If disasters big or small send us into that negative spiral of grief,  illness, broken promises or disappointment, the holidays can be hell. One of my…

  • The Wedding Ring

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    The Wedding Ring by Judith Richardson Preface The sound of a woman crying woke Maggie from a restless sleep. Nudged by an early morning breeze the lace curtains on the bedroom window billowed softly. There it was again. She called anxiously, “Mom?” then remembered her mother was not sleeping in the other apartment in the…

  • What’s New

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    What’s New I have been neglecting my website and while I doubt that I have very many readers of my blogs, I felt the urge to bring my possible readers up to date.   In January I took a fabulous trip to California and felt compelled to keep a journal. We took tons of pictures and I…

  • Christmas Cookies

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    Christmas Cookies Christmas cookies are a treasured holiday tradition in my family. When I was a child, my Grandmother Winder always sent cookies and other goodies from her fragrant kitchen home with us after a visit. Her cookies were always full of black walnuts gathered and tirelessly picked from their difficult to empty shells. Grandpa would…

  • Remembering Halloween

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    . Small Town Halloween I started out to just record my memories of Halloween celebrations and customs of my childhood in the 1950’s. Before I began to write what I remember about how my brother and did Trick or Treat in the little Southern Iowa town where we grew up, I thought I would do…

  • Checking In

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    One of the good things about the technology now available to us is the way we can reach out to family and friends with text messages.  While our children and grandchildren make use of it constantly, it seems, some of us older folks may not try it. Since the pandemic I have put texting loved ones…

  • Ignorance is Bliss

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    “Ignorance is bliss, tis folly to be wise. “Thomas Gray – Ode on a Distant Prospect at Eaton College. Ignorance is bliss or what you don’t know can’t hurt you, I once talked to a school guidance counselor who urged me to find my bliss. By bliss I am sure he meant to find what makes…

  • I Read It In a Book

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    Chuck Wendel and I often got in heated discussions about a variety of things. Often, we would argue about whether or not a word he used was actually in the dictionary. One of our biggest brouhahas was over the past tense of the word shit.  if you know the past tense, you will be a rare…

  • Technology and Me: Television

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    Technology and Me: Television My father built our first television set. After he was discharged and working for a bank machine company, he took a correspondence course from  Heath, and built tools to begin learning all about electronics.  That is when my fascination with technology began.  While television was already a reality in the late 1930’s and 40’s,…

  • Radio Days

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    Radio Days It occurred to me after breakfast my good friend Miles Browne, that before I launch into how television has changes during my lifetime, I should not neglect to mention what a big part radio was of our lives before television came along.  In the 30’s, 40’s and early 50’s radio was a major source…