Our family has enjoyed English and Scottish country dancing since 1998. Here’s a picture of Ray and me at our dance group’s Christmas Ball back in 2016. We have missed dancing since his health problems began in January of 2023,…
Several of us at Notgrass History are busy these days with the final proofreading process for Our Great Big World, our daughter Mary Evelyn’s new world geography for children in grades 1 through 4. She has been in contact with…
Ray and I were born between 1946 and 1964, which means that we are Baby Boomers. Our son was born near the end of Generation X, the generation born between 1965 and 1980. Our daughters were born near the beginning…
My family has enjoyed English country dancing for a quarter of a century. Here I am with our daughter Mary Evelyn during a break in a dance class in 2006. I’m the one with the broken arm, but that’s another…
Before I share the message from my heart today, I’d like to give you an update on my precious husband, Ray. He has completed 16 of his 26 radiation treatments. Here he is after treatment number one on September 20.…
I have been working my way through one of Ray’s favorite books, Democracy in America, written by French aristocrat and lawyer, Alexis de Tocqueville. De Tocqueville came to America with fellow lawyer Gustave de Beaumont in 1831 to study our…
