Collecting My Thoughts

It was time.  It was supposed to be just our 50th reunion blog for the Mt. Morris High School class of 1957.  Now we’re past 60 years since...

On Thursday we drove to Indianapolis so we could see Bob’s brother, Rick, who was there for an Elk’s national convention.  He is the Exalted...

I’ve written at this blog about the Tennessee connections based on the memories of my father.  After my great-grandfather moved to Illinois,...

         We were in Indianapolis over the week-end to attend an Arsenal Technical High School class reunion at the Riverwalk Restaurant in ...

Monday Memories--my brother This is the most recent photo I have, taken at his class reunion on July 5. He was president of the class and s...

It's reunion time We see lots of reunions at Lakeside. Families. Classes. Clubs. There's a group of friends here this week who atten...

Thursday Thirteen--13 highlights of 2007 in no particular order 1) I learned to really love vegetables. I was really packing on the pounds-...

Friday Family Photo--The generations In the black and white photo taken probably in August or September 1935, we see my uncle John and his...

4089 I wish I watched more TV Then I would sit in a chair and do nifty exercises with little weights for my upper arms. Yesterday I went ...

Monday Memories of Memories The Tech Reunion The Committee for the Reunion did a fabulous job. From the nametags, to the dinner to the vis...

3882 We're on our way to the Tech reunion. The class meets tonight at a private club, and all the classes get together tomorrow on th...

New stories at the reunion blog The ladies' breakfast Center School in Trot Town Town hang-outs

3776 Our class reunions We're going to two high school class reunions this summer, one in June, one in July. Enrollment at Arsenal T...

3557 Up and Running Again For a week or two, I haven't been able to update two of my blogs, and had developed a queue which I stored ...

2958 Friday Family Photo Isn't this the most magnificent woodwork? It is called " pumpkin pine " and was used throughout m...

Friday Family Photo Even most of my family couldn't tell you how these two photos are related. I'm guessing the b & w is 1940...

561 The Reunion of the SLOBS Last night we attended the 50th anniversary of a high school social club called the SLOBS (they aren't s...

540 Two Classes One Reunion At the end of the month we're driving to Indiana to attend a reunion of my husband's high school frate...