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You may have guessed this by now, but I just love it when our children and grandchildren come for a visit. I have so many favorite things to do with them. Games is one. One night recently when our daughters…
You may have guessed this by now, but I just love it when our children and grandchildren come for a visit. I have so many favorite things to do with them. Games is one. One night recently when our daughters…
On this day thirty-nine years ago, I made one of the best decisions I have ever made. I married Ray Notgrass. I had been twenty-one years old for twenty-five days and a college graduate for seven. I was not old…
For two weeks each year, my life revolves around “The Play.” For those two weeks, I live and breathe “The Play.” Practice starts this morning at 9:00 a.m. As I dive into these wonderful two weeks, I’d like to tell…
On Tuesday Ray, Mother, and I arrived for a visit with our son John, his wife Audra, and their son Henry. Throughout our visit, sixteen-month-old Henry has been saying words and making sounds that have thrilled his doting grandparents. We have…
A beautiful pre-Civil War cemetery sits along the back edge of our yard. The oldest grave is dated 1856. Family members of a past generation honored their loved ones by erecting an iron fence along the front and tall stone walls…
Gary and Jo are two of the most positive people I know. They married soon after Jo graduated from high school and recently celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary. We missed the party because we were out of town, but I…