Posted in Story—Tape 1 on October 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance.
They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in life.
And, most importantly, cookies.
[Rudolph Giuliani]
Susanna and Amos Black, c. 1890
I loved to go to town with Grandpa Jim in the horse and buggy because, while he was buying groceries or visiting with old friends, [...]
Posted in Story—Tape 1 on October 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The song-birds leave us at the summer’s close,
Only the empty nests are left behind,
And pipings of the quail among the sheaves.
[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]
Grandpa Jim came home from town one day, saying that he knew where he could get a pony for me providing my parents thought it was okay. Seems this other family had [...]
