Tuesday, December 16, 2025

Pugh, Sandy

The Dreaded First Day of School

  As a kid I always dreaded the first of August. We had to start thinking about going back to school. First a trip to...

Dad’s Loose Change  

            When my dad came home from work at night, his first stop was the dresser in the master bedroom....

Vic-ta-lee’s Birthday

Birthdays around the large salon I worked in for 15 years were always an adventure. Victor Lee, or Vic-Ta-Lee as his mother calls him,...

The School Lunchroom

A walk through the old grade school at our all school reunion brought back these memories.   Probably the busiest room in the Mullinville grade school...

Never Trust the Boys

Every few years my Dad would take us to Duluth, Minnesota to visit his old Army buddy, Joe. He and his wife had 10...

Thunderheads and Rainy Days

Friday June 26th was a beautiful day. In the afternoon the thunderheads billowed up in the blue sky. As I watched them I was...

My Father’s Hands

We lost my father when he was only 52 and I was only 24 years old. I had just learned to enjoy my father...

Grandmother’s Farm

            One of my favorite things, when I was 3 and 4 years old and staying with Grandmother, was going...