Mystery, History and Love: You’ll Find Them in the Details
My grandmother, Laura, died in 1997 and yet, she remains clear in my mind. From decades earlier, I feel her cool hands on my feverish forehead. When I was four years old and abruptly relieved…
History, Courage & Learning to Remember
In college, I was no history buff. Dr. Lynwood Oyos’ legendary Western Civilization class at Augustana College nearly sank me in terms of my grade point average. He was a brilliant and personable professor who…
Migraines, Limitations and Laughing In Between
This week, all of the natural and artificial anti-blogging forces in the universe have conspired to keep me from writing here, so this is my attempt at defiance. I had a post half-finished on Tuesday,…
Children, Mirrors and Mothers on Other Days: a Meditation
As a mother, I’ve now spent more than thirty years considering and observing my children. From the time I first held them, I’ve pondered their selfhood and their destinies, neither of which have I predicted…
Surprise and Gratitude
Kourtney Heintz is a writer and blogger I recently “met” online, a person of generosity and insight. Today I found a great surprise, that she, having received the Awesome Blog Content Award, has passed it…
Just as She Wrote It
What is that handwriting? Good question. This is a scan of one page of my Grandma Laura Feess’s ledger, a thin but treasured volume that my Mom recently shared with me. As a young wife…
Settling In
It’s a personal best. I’ve now lived at the same address for five and a half years. I know that necessities, moves and changes can surprise a person and I have no exemption from life’s…
Writing it Then
I may be the world’s most delinquent blogger, but I have been writing. This new story is requiring a great deal of research. Thanks to the Internet, that process is sometimes too enjoyable. In my…
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