The Aging Process

Two movies in one weekend. Probably some kind of a record for me. I’ve been telling myself for weeks that I wanted to go to a movie, but saying something and doing something about it are two different things. Finally, I said, “Ok, now.” Yesterday I...

A Thrilling Opera

Love, anger, revenge and forgiveness all swirled across the screen during the Metropolitan Opera’s HD broadcast of Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda this afternoon. My sister, Pam, Kaze and I listened/watched entranced for three hours as Queen Elizabeth I and Mary...

When is Old too Old?

Is 81 years old too old for a slumber party – or as they say today – a “sleep over?” Not at all. Bobbie Hawkins Aupperlee, whose husband died recently after a long illness, invites several high school friends to come to her farm near Newkirk, OK. Five of us join her...

The Beginning and the End

“I’m not going to date one of the ‘big boys.” I’d heard a rumor that Rodney Wilson planned to ask me for a date. Since I was only a junior in high school, his return from the Navy qualified him as one of the “big boys.” That spring of 1947 most of my girl friends at...

Moments to hold dear

A year ago Rodney and I attended Bill Tammeus’s annual writing week at Ghost Ranch, New Mexico. Our writing buddy, Kaze Gadway joined us. “Death and Its Mysteries” was the theme for the week.  Little did we know what a gift that would be. The week...

In India with the Lanphears

Fred and Nancy remained in Chikale (village in India) getting ready as one of the visit sites from the IERD (International Exposition of Rural Development).  They arrived in India in September, 1983 in the midst of the monsoons, spent a week in Maliwada at a council...