Happy Birthday, Mary Evelyn!
Forty years ago today, Ray and I drove up the long driveway to the home of Doug and Cora Beal Shields to leave our four-year-old son John and our two-year-old daughter Bethany in the able care of our precious friend,…
Forty years ago today, Ray and I drove up the long driveway to the home of Doug and Cora Beal Shields to leave our four-year-old son John and our two-year-old daughter Bethany in the able care of our precious friend,…
Good Morning, Mamas, I want you to know how much I appreciate your emails and the kind comments you leave with posts. I want to answer each one, but some days are simply too full. I have been so hit…
Practice starts today for the 24th annual production of our local Homeschool Dramatic Society, directed by our daughter Mary Evelyn McCurdy. If you live in our area or are traveling nearby in mid-September, we would love to see you there.…
I love how Miss Katherine faces her age of 99 years with humor. On a morning walk with Ray recently, I thought of her when I saw this morning glory climbing a tall grass stem. Friends and family threw a…
Grace Coolidge said that her marriage to Calvin Coolidge united two people of “vastly different temperaments and tastes.” These two vastly different people loved each other deeply. Like every other successful couple, they learned to make it work. The public…
In June 1923, two years after Calvin Coolidge became vice president of the United States, President Warren G. Harding began what he called a Voyage of Understanding across the country. He traveled all the way to Alaska and Canada, and…