Category: Family

I have been trying to organize over 40 years of living in the same house, deciding what to throw away and what to keep. I am slowly going through files… Continue reading My Daughters

It was 1976.  We sat in the psychologist’s office going over the tests they had just performed on our daughter, then four years old.   They told us she was mentally… Continue reading Learning to Believe

My grandmother, Effie Hedges, lived until she was 95 years old but she never recovered from the tragedies of loss of her children, particularly Teddy, her youngest, among those lost… Continue reading A Family Story: Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941