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My Thanksgiving Birthday
A number of years ago this happy little family “enjoyed” Thanksgiving dinner in the hospital… because the dimpled little darlin’ had just been born the day before. (The day before Thanksgiving, that is. Not the day before this picture was taken!) Thanksgiving doesn’t always fall on November 24. You might think it would happen every 7 years, but no. With…
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A California Story
Day 26 of our virtual road trip takes us west from Nevada to California. Lyle and I lived in California for about 15 months in 1988 and 1989, but rather than tell about that, I decided to interview the California boy I married. Lyle grew up in Vallejo which is in the San Francisco Bay area. “Would now be a good time…
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An Indiana Story
Day 14 of our virtual road trip takes us south from Michigan to Indiana. Some of my earliest memories take place in Indiana, where we moved the summer I was two-and-a-half. There are a couple of memories I have from that fall that tie in with pictures we have. I think I actually do remember the incidents but probably having…
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A Michigan Story
Day 13 of our virtual road trip takes us west from New York to Michigan. We lived in Lansing, Michigan from 1969-1972. In the spring of 1970 the congregation Dad pastored bought a church building that had an apartment in the back of it. And so our family moved in. I can’t visualize the apartment part of the building, but…
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A New York Story
Day 12 of our virtual road trip takes us northeast from Pennsylvania to New York. In 1991 when Lyle and I made a trip from Kansas to Pennsylvania we took one day to visit New York City. Here is my scrapbook and journal from that experience. May 29, 1991 We set out to see the Statue of Liberty today, leaving…
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A Pennsylvania Story
Day 11 of our virtual road trip takes us east from Ohio to Pennsylvania. In 1991 Lyle and I made a trip to Pennsylvania from Kansas. We stayed with my aunt and uncle in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and went on several sight-seeing excursions from there. Today I’ll be sharing portions of my journal and memorabilia from our visit to Philadelphia. May…
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An Ohio Story
Day 10 of our virtual road trip takes us north from Kentucky to Ohio. We lived in Lima, Ohio during my high school years. One of my memories from those years is the time my 95-year-old great-grandmother visited us. Granny lived in Eldorado, Oklahoma. (She was the 1918 “Mama” in the story I told about Oklahoma.) Mother had invited her to come…
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A Kentucky Story
Day 9 of our virtual road trip takes us north from Tennessee to Kentucky. The main thing I remember about Kentucky is going to church camp in Wilmore every fours years from 1976 – 1988. The small denomination we were a part of had a “general camp” every quadrennial (seriously, that’s what they called it!) at the Holiness campground that was connected with…
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A Tennessee Story
Day 8 of our virtual road trip takes us northeast from Georgia to Tennessee. My family lived in a suburb of Nashville for about 6 months when I was 6 years old. Since we were there such a short time and I was so young, my memories are pretty vague. I remember playing with the neighbor kids on our swing set……
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An Arkansas Story
Day 4 of our virtual road trip takes us east from Oklahoma to Arkansas. We moved so many times over the years that no one place really seems like “home” to me unless it would be Grandmother and Granddaddy’s home place in the Ozarks. They lived there as early as I can remember, and when they finally sold it in their retirement…
