Snap shot in my mind January 19, 2012

My grandparent's house in Torrington, 1960 ish. Grandma changes her house dress for her go-downtown-dress. Lisa and I each get to choose a giant purse, from Grandma's old purses, Granddad gives us each some change and we go shopping with Grandma.

Snap shot in my mind ---January 17, 2012

A boy, 20 years old, walks up the gangway at the Omaha airport. Wearing a white T shirt and jean jacket, he is broad shouldered, grisly looking, with a scruffy beard and dark hair, longish and curling beneath his cap.
I turn to my long time friend and say, "There he is, that's Kyle!" "No," she says. "That can't be him!"
Kyle, my son, gone for 6 months. Home again, and now a man.

Snap shot in my mind ---January 14, 2012

The upstairs of the ranch house.
The stairs carpeted with 2x4 carpet samples. The brown and black variegated tile down the hall and into the north bedroom. The middle room has white w/black tile.

Snap shot in my mind ---January 13, 2012

Hayloft. Haymow.
The wooden stairs that went from the tack room to the haymow, the towering straw bales and the sweet smelling huge piles of grass hay, all irresistible pulls to climb the ladder on the east wall with the rope and single stirrup over my shoulder. Even when I was in my 20's, it was a thrill to swing across the loft and try to land in the hay pile, missing the stair well and the hayholes.

Snap shot in my mind January 12, 2012

The record cold temperatures for Nebraska this date were in 1974.

I was a senior at St. Agnes Academy.

The picture in my mind is 1st period, Sister Emilia, French Lab. I am the only girl and only senior with 4 freshmen boys; Paul McCune, Larry Powell, Dan Murphy. I am late for school every day. I drive a 1968 Rambler, it gets stuck in the snow. Paul is Sister’s pet. He makes her laugh and she never turns me in for being late.