Doris Schroeder
The longer I live on this earth, the more I appreciated the freedoms we enjoyed in the days of attending the Sunrise country school. It was refreshing to wake up to the sound of... Read more
When I was in high school in the 40s and 50s, and took typewriter lessons, we practiced typing with this phrase “Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country!” I real... Read more
Just twenty-three years ago this summer we had the privilege of witnessing a Reno County frog hop over the line easily on one of the streets off Main in the lovely town of Hutchinson, Kansas... Read more
“To be free” means different things to each of us, and to many of us, it is taken for granted. We, who are now older, do fully realize all the freedoms we enjoy in America and have come to a... Read more
On a lonely Kansas hill located by a shelterbelt of old trees and a barbed wire fence sits the place that once fanned my imagination into the field of writing. Strange to say, it was located... Read more
Dear Dad, How life has changed since you left us to go to heaven forty f our years ago! I doubt if you would recognize the world you once lived in. It makes me wonder at the changes you saw... Read more
The year we had to put my mother in a nursing home was really traumatic for both her and me. Ever since, Mother’s Day in May has a certain bitter sweetness to me. “You mean you’re going to l... Read more
According to the calendar, it was over sixty-seven years ago that I marched down the aisle of the little Buhler High School auditorium to the sound of Pomp and Circumstance to graduate. Th... Read more
“There is nothing to fear but fear itself!” is a quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt that had been cited to me often during the formidable years of the forties. Living on the old farm h... Read more
Awaking early this morning to the welcome sound of pitter patter on the street, I knew in my heart that Spring will come on schedule tomorrow morning and we will all do wh... Read more