Suprise Me

To help us become proficient in using a mouse, Solitaire was installed on all our computers. Read More

Reuniting with an unrequited spirit Read More

The Chain Letter and the Fender Bender The first story I wrote for Retro was about some rather costly auto body damage I caused when I was driving my husband’s beloved T-bird.   Needless to say he wasn’t happy about that.   (See Fender Bender) Years before we had another fender bender and although that time… Read More

I also have a few leftover Valentine's cards. Now that I look at them, they seem a tad racy for a kid to be selling...maybe they somehow got mixed in with the others. Read More

I held the door for her Read More

My relationship with my father was complicated. Read More

During my senior year in high school I was offered the chance to learn how to fly. In the barren plains northwestern South Dakota, between the bluffs of short pines that sheltered my little airfield I spent my Spring overcoming my fear of heights and fulfilling a lifelong dream of taking to the sky. I… Read More

What I find I keep is my memories, my dreams and sometimes things that I wish I could forget. ....I keep an old bird's nest that I found with a small feather resting in it. Read More

I still own a pair of black Can’t Bust ‘Em dungarees that I wore while working as a timber cutter at the Buckshot mine in Eldora, Colorado. I don’t wear them anymore — I’m a little beyond a 1970 waistline — but the rugged old pants still sport the brass buttons sewn onto the beltline… Read More

Although mindful of the saying that too many birthdays will kill you, I recently celebrated 75 years on this earth.  Which can be viewed from two perspectives.  Looking back, that I have lived through, successfully completed, three quarters of 25 years each.  Or, looking forward, that I am now starting my fourth quarter during which,… Read More