The large boat was on a tour throughout the very large port of Hamburg, Germany. We were part of a larger group of folks whose business plans included this portion of our trip. It seemed that the vast majority of the others were disinterested at best as they were jabbering louder and louder over the…
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Sweets for my sweetie
by Gretchen Lord Anderson • • 8 Comments
Valentine’s Day was my favorite non-get-out-of-school holiday when I was a kid. It seems like we started celebrating days if not weeks ahead as the teacher would take us through the steps to make our very own valentine receptacles. Sometimes they were simply made out of shoe boxes. But the ones I loved the most…
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A hot morning in the trunk
by Gretchen Lord Anderson • • 16 Comments
Gertrude Borkowski had lived her entire life in this small Midwestern town. I don’t recall her maiden name, but at some point she married Mr. Borkowski who died before she came into my life. Fact is, I never really met Gertrude as she had moved in her twilight years to another state where I was…
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Things that go bump
by Gretchen Lord Anderson • • 8 Comments
I was never left home alone as a child. My parents always made certain someone older was with me – usually Opal, our babysitter. Opal would come to our house when long stays were required, which wasn’t very often. My younger brother and I would go to Opal and Ray’s house for a shorter span…
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Someone may be listening
by Gretchen Lord Anderson • • 11 Comments
“Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.” – William F. Buckley, Jr. “A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward.” – Franklin Delano Roosevelt One of the best…
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All in good time
by Gretchen Lord Anderson • • 6 Comments
A dear friend of ours died last weekend. Florence was 94. We had known her for roughly 35 years. Her husband Marvis was a close friend as well. Florence survived him by 18 years. I shake my head in amazement at time and what it means. Now, I know I’ve concluded often enough that when…
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Siding with the Thugs
by Gretchen Lord Anderson • • 1 Comment
Fans of professional football (particularly the Green Bay Packers and Detroit Lions) have been abuzz the last 10 days or so about Detroit Lions defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh’s supposed missteps during a game that landed first one foot and then the other squarely on the injured leg of Green Bay’s downed quarterback Aaron Rodgers. In…
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New Year, New Life
by Gretchen Lord Anderson • • 14 Comments
When Mom and Dad got married back in the 1930s, they didn’t have much of anything. Whether we know it from experience or from stories told to us by others, we know the Depression was a tough time for a lot of people. Mom and Dad couldn’t afford a wedding so they loaded up the…
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Christmas Conclusions
by Gretchen Lord Anderson • • 6 Comments
Terry and I spent last weekend in Chicago, a trip that has taken on the essence of tradition for us this time of year. I grew up in a small city of about 75,000 in Missouri and he grew up on a farm in eastern South Dakota so any trip any time to Chicago is…