Tuesday, December 9, 2025
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Nostalgia and Thoughts: Christmas Trees Past

  A little history of the Christmas tree: The evergreen fir tree has traditionally been used to celebrate winter festivals (both pagan and Christian for...

Childhood Christmas Memories (Best Of)

            As I decorated the tree the weekend after Thanksgiving, I was trying to remember some of my childhood Christmas presents. I realized that...

The Cookie Monster

When I was between the ages of 3 and 5 we lived in a neighborhood where a lot of retired people lived and I...

First Grade

We didn’t have kindergarten in our little town when I started to school so our first indoctrination into learning was first grade. We were...

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...

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...

Grandmother’s Coffee Table

One day at Grandmothers when I was 3 years old, all had been quiet. I had been coloring in my color books, and watching...

Sophomore Year

What a relief to go into the sophomore year in high school. We were no longer the newbie's and the bottom of the barrel...