Month: June 2013

  • A Much-Anticipated Event 2013

      Today I’m updating what is becoming an annual post.  It’s time for the gathering of cherished friends, a group that I believe may be fairly unique. We have a name and each year we migrate to the North Woods of Wisconsin from as far away as Florida. We’re old friends, some among us go…

  • HAPPY ANNIVERSARY to my PARENTS!

    Regular readers know I celebrate special days.  Last week we celebrated my mom’s 82nd birthday. Today we celebrate both my parents in honor of their 59th wedding anniversary. Yep, one week after my mom’s 23rd birthday, she and my dad, a not-yet-ordained minister, married in Rhode Island, a long way from a farm in Shawano County.  After a…

  • HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MOM !! 2013

    Regular readers know I favor Special Days.  Often they are birthdays of people important to me.  And that is the subject of this  day – the birthday of a woman about whom I have rarely posted, other than teasing about the habits I believe I inherited from her, first mentioned five years ago and the…