Our family loves to visit factory museums and visitor centers and to go on factory tours. They make great field trips; most of the ones we have visited have been free. Among those we have enjoyed are the Hershey’s Chocolate…
Our friend Susan is a true blue friend. Many people count on Susan. I have learned much from her. On Sundays we often eat out with her and her mom and other friends. Susan is retired from teaching special education…
Ray and I always enjoy the little towns of southern Illinois when we drive home after visiting our son and his family in Missouri. Ray and I grew up watching Popeye cartoons in the 1960s, so we sometimes stop at…
Several weeks ago, I told you about our visit to the Smoky Mountains with friends and showed you a couple of photos from our stop at Mingus Mill, constructed in 1886. Every view was captivating. First, we marveled at the…
Ray and I returned home last evening from a getaway to New Harmony, Indiana. We drove up on Thursday before our son and his family joined us on Friday. We had taken our children there many years ago before they…
I have written before about the mothering lessons I learned from Caroline Ingalls while reading her daughter’s books aloud to our children. We can learn parenting lessons from James Mason Wilder (Almanzo Wilder’s father), too. When Ray and I visited…
