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October 03, 2008 05:53 PM EDT -- Here are some photographs of my maternal grandfather, Jesse Orville Turner, and my younger brother, Roger. I brought the first two pictures to my dad's house a couple of year's ago to show . . . more
December 10, 2008 10:08 AM EST -- (Disclaimer: This really has nothing to do with the actual Kodachrome film product. I just liked the alliterative sound it makes when paired with Christmas and the nostalgia it conjures.) I grew up . . . more
June 06, 2008 02:45 PM EDT -- Those who know me (and through me, my family) may remember a photo essay I posted about Kacy, my 9-year-old daughter and her recent performance at a school talent show. It has been no great mystery . . . more
May 27, 2008 10:50 PM EDT -- A few days ago our Amazing Katie C. did me the favor of looking for some information about some of my ancestors on my Dad's side of my family.  I told her I would dig out the pictures I have so . . . more
June 10, 2008 06:09 PM EDT -- Recently, Peter Wimsey posted a postcard with a reference to Halley's Comet . It reminded me of my Grandma Alice's mention of the same. So here is another "chapter" of Grandma Alice, . . . more
Summer 1960
by Closed for the Season C.
views: 47 | rating: 10 | comments: 39
August 22, 2008 10:12 AM EDT -- My parents essentially had two families. My brother Rick and my sister Kristi are eight and nine years older than me respecctively. My brother Roger is four years younger than me. It's funny . . . more
June 05, 2008 10:12 AM EDT -- Sometimes I'm embarrassed to tell people that I had a really nice childhood. I had great parents who stayed married until my mother's death when I was 25. We lived in a modest, but comfortably . . . more
May 09, 2008 07:51 PM EDT -- I do a lot of genealogy work for other people. I love finding long lost family members and solving genealogical puzzles. This is some genealogy work I did for my own family and involves a little history . . . more
May 10, 2008 02:50 PM EDT -- This is a story written first person from Grandma Alice's point of view. Like with all my Grandma Alice stories, the whole is taken from bits and pieces of letters and notes I found that . . . more
April 04, 2008 06:56 PM EDT -- This postcard is especially poignant to me. Although it was never mailed, I know approximately when it was purchased.  It was from my Aunt Doris "Feenie" Turner . . . more
June 15, 2008 08:12 PM EDT -- This isn't actually a childhood memory I have concerning my dad but rather a story my dad told me about the latter part of his own childhood. In 1950, my dad, Richard Klamm, graduated from Washington . . . more
April 30, 2008 01:59 PM EDT -- On April 30, 1985, my Dad passed away after a brief battle with lung cancer.  He was 59 years old.  There's not a day goes by that I don't miss him.  It's as if there is a hole . . . more
May 05, 2008 02:42 PM EDT -- An exchange of comments on an image by Lance L. got me to thinking, if I had the opportunity to pick my family, who would I add and who would I subtract and who would I replace with whom? I had a . . . more
March 17, 2008 08:07 PM EDT -- I have in my possession a tintype (well, four of them really, but this story only pertains to one) of four women who have never been identified. The picture was given to me along with dozens of others . . . more
July 30, 2008 10:21 AM EDT -- Everybody has a story. I encounter that fact regularly as a professional freelance writer with a dozen years' experience. One day I may interview the head of a multi-million dollar company, the next . . . more
May 27, 2008 03:07 PM EDT -- If you're reading this, you made it through the weekend. I've been watching CNN this morning and hope all of our Iowa Gatherers are safe and sound. We made it to the Farmer's Market for . . . more
June 23, 2008 07:45 PM EDT --   Grandma Alice (my mom's mom) passed away on July 27, 1997, but several years before that, she entrusted me with job of caring for her many notebooks of newspaper clippings, handwritten stories . . . more
September 18, 2008 09:55 AM EDT -- Last night, my husband dropped a big, pink card in front of me with "Happy Birthday, Sheryl" written on it.  Confused, and worried that my husband's memory was getting worse than it has . . . more
October 26, 2008 07:07 AM EDT -- The Halloween when I was 9 didn't look very promising to me.  We had the usual build-up at school.  We made skeletons for the schoolroom windows with multi-folded legs, bats hung from the . . . more
ITS MY BIRTHDAY!!!
by Mary C.
views: 36 | rating: 9.3 | comments: 20
June 25, 2008 08:15 AM EDT -- I am a very young 38 today!!! I'm having a fantastic day so far....hope everyone else is too!!! more
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