Thanksgiving has always been my favorite holiday. I love all the traditional Thanksgiving foods like roasted turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy, sweet potatoes, and especially pumpkin pies with a generous topping of freshly whipped cream. I even like the much maligned green bean casserole with the french fried onions on top. But the food isn’t […]
Monthly Archives: November 2014
I don’t know exactly how we ended up with both our children in the military. And both pilots no less. Neither Don or I had ever been in the military. And in fact, other than one older cousin who was drafted during the Vietnam War, I really didn’t even know anyone from my generation who […]
The first time I remember being cognizant of funerals was when my Grandma Anderson passed away when I was nine years old. She and Grandpa had moved to California from Minnesota a few years earlier to be closer to my mom, a nurse, so she could help Grandma with some medical problems she was having. […]