Collecting My Thoughts

See Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 and Part 4 for the story about why I was living on my grandparents’ farm in 1958, the summer between my fresh...

What does an 18 year old do for a social life while living on a farm with her grandparents?  Not much except spend time with adults.  See Pa...

What does an 18 year old do all day while living on a farm with her grandparents who aren’t thrilled to have her “help?” See Part 1 and Par...

In the summer of 1958 I lived on my grandparents’ farm near Franklin Grove, IL when they were in their 80s and I was 18.  (See Part 1 )  The...

If you had said to me, “Remember the time you lived at the farm and the well was dry?” I would have responded, “I remember the farm, but do...

Looking through this photo of the 50th class reunion of the class of 1958 published in the Mt. Morris Times, October 16, 2008, I’m reminde...

In 1958 I tranferred from Manchester College in Indiana to the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana to study Russian and Spanish. It ...