Tag: family

  • Lowell and Mildred, Part 2

    Lowell and Mildred, Part 2

    All right, chums, here’s the conclusion of stories about my grandma, Mildred, and her brother, Lowell, as they grew up in small-town South Dakota in the early 1900s.

  • Walk of Shame Snow Woman

    Walk of Shame Snow Woman

    Three years ago, back in 2013 when good things still seemed possible, I started a serial on Facebook involving a snow lady we’d made in the front yard. Periodically, when we weren’t shoveling out from the latest blizzard or fending off mid-winter fluesies, I’d toss out another post about this snow lady and her imagined…

  • Scrapbookin’ the Road Trip: Page the Final

    Scrapbookin’ the Road Trip: Page the Final

    After visiting the Great Sand Dunes, we continued to drive through Colorado, towards Wyoming. Before we could really gun the car and head north, however, we needed to pull over for gas. And Jocelyn might have needed a bag of beef jerky. As is her way. As soon as we turned off the engine, we…