Happy 4th of July!
Happy 4th of July, Mamas! Take a walk down memory lane with me as I share chronological pictures from 4th of July celebrations Ray and I have enjoyed through the years. This is our son-in-law Nate and his dad Rickā¦
Happy 4th of July, Mamas! Take a walk down memory lane with me as I share chronological pictures from 4th of July celebrations Ray and I have enjoyed through the years. This is our son-in-law Nate and his dad Rickā¦
Last week I wrote about the importance letters once had in the lives of Americans. On this day before the 4th of July, I want to share a portion of a letter John Adams wrote to his wife, Abigail, onā¦
On the morning of June 30, 1859, Jean FranƧois Gravelet, a 34-year-old French acrobat, better known by his performance name of Monsieur Charles Blondin became the first person to walk across Niagara Falls on a tightrope. A crowd of 25,000ā¦
Ray told me the other day that he is thinking about doing a podcast telling what it was like for him to grow up in the 1950s and 1960s. Ray had a childhood I think people will enjoy learning about.ā¦
On Friday I was fascinated while searching for photos that illustrate waiting. I was overwhelmed by the thousands of pictures in the holdings of the Library of Congress that have the word wait in the title. This one was particularlyā¦
About this time last year, I shared the following story: One day when our children were young, I was standing in our tiny kitchen in Illinois talking on the phone, while our little Mary Evelyn waited eagerly for me toā¦