Chapter 2: Colorado I - Brush Years (1955-1957) Five Significant Events We Built A Log Cabin We moved from Virginia to Brush, Colorado,...

Living in Virginia (the first time) When Dad left the service we moved to Virginia, and he joined the electric company, Deco Electronics....

Marriage and Living in Cheyenne The first Friday of December 1952 changed their world when Dad and Mom drove across the Colorado/New...

Mom, born in Texas like your Daddy, grew up on a ranch twenty miles from Eads, Colorado about which she wrote in a volume she titled “I...

The first-born of a U.S. Air Force sergeant named John from Virginia and his wife, Virginia, from Colorado, I exploded into their...

Dear Adam, I gaze at a picture of my son’s face. I am always amazed by your perfection sitting next to your grandpa. Viewing my father...

Mom, I never would have imagined 27 years ago when we said goodbye, the woman I would be today would miss you as much as ever or ......

Yeah, I admit, I’m feeling rather Joan-of-Arcish. Just like in elementary school when that mean girl pinched me but I was always the one...

Ever bump into someone...

Margaret Mitchell House Museum...

I have several pieces of jewelry I cherished, in no specific order, prior to February 27, 2016: - My engagement and wedding band set; -...

Cousins and I rolled down the hill beneath a walnut tree on my paternal grandparents’ Virginia farm. When I taught in Indiana, the...

After finishing C. S. Lewis’ That Hideous Strength, four days late for our small group meeting last Friday, I picked up a perennial...

Sometimes I wonder what our blogs, Christmas letters, and facebook posts would look like if we didn’t spin them so our lives, families,...

How important is football to me? After my faith and family, it is number one, especially Denver Broncos football. “Watch the Broncos win...

A Colorado Springs statue centers an intersection by our town’s oldest high school, situated conveniently to cause fender-benders and...

When they see me, most people see an older white woman and assume they know I'm a racist. However, I knew nothing of racism until I...

A year ago tomorrow is the anniversary of the worst mass murder in Colorado in a century. On New Year;s Day 2012, two,...

It’s that time of year that all of us with latent addictive personalities anticipate – McDonald’s Monopoly game. Last year’s game was an...

Many assume that reaching a new speed limit on the old road of life traumatizes people, but for me, the “eights” have been more...