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East Stone Gap, Va.
June 6, 1918

Dear Isaac,
Thank you for your continued interest in seeing me.  Our last time together was indeed a pleasant one.  I look forward to seeing you again.  I know that our next visit should be just as rewarding.  Sunday will be convenient with me.  If you are called for your engagement, then the following Sunday will be all right too.  Meantime, good wishes for a successful meeting.  I’m looking forward to seeing you.

Since...(click to continue reading)

Estimated Reading Time: 8.0 minutes

Letter to Mary

Dear Mary,

It has been a long, long time since we reveled in our passion for each other. The memories of our good times together have to a large extent faded from my mind. Now and then a scene from our past forms in my brain that reminds me of how good things were for us. The politically correct speak of old age as the golden years. Hogwash! I see the golden years as the years we had together as a family, especially those before our kids became teenagers smarter than their parents, but ...(click to continue reading)

Estimated Reading Time: 4.0 minutes

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Life with Mary

Memory fades with age as with most all other faculties. Rather than to attempt to write a narrative about my life with Mary, I shall try to relate some of the things I remember pretty well. If I mess up the chronology, so be it.

Mary’s family went to the Lutheran Church all her life. It was ordained that we should be married in that church. We attended the Lutheran Church for a while, but I was dissatisfied with the ritual.

“You Lutherans have way too much getting up and down, ...(click to continue reading)

Estimated Reading Time: 4.8 minutes

Life with Mary 2

With four young children not yet in school Mary was a full-time mother as well as a wife. There were meals, diapers, laundry, skinned knees, hugs and kisses, grocery lists, trips to the doctor, and on and on. She was ever grateful that Granny was happy and eager to tend to the kids occasionally to give her a break from her daily routine. Mary took the opportunity to spend a little time with her friends, go shopping or whatnot. It seemed that she was always ready for bed at bedtime. She was alway...(click to continue reading)

Estimated Reading Time: 8.6 minutes

Loudmouth

“Get some Cheerios, Mom,” said Stephen. 

“We have plenty at home,” said Mom, and walked on down the aisle. 

“Could we have some chocolates?” came the next question. 

“No.”  This answer came with a slight movement of Moms eyebrows and pursing of her lips to emphasize her answer.  On they went up and down the aisles satisfying Mom’s shopping list, with an occasional hint from her four-year-old son.  With the grocery cart filled, they made their way to a checkout line. 
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Estimated Reading Time: 2.8 minutes

Lunch with Charlie

Buried among the junk mail I found a note from a long time pal and fellow engineer, the last person I would have expected to venture near Lafayette, but his note said he would be driving through on his way back home from somewhere out west. His note was signed “Chucky D”, his own choice of a nickname. His real name is Charles Lanier D – wait, before trying to say his last name try the following: bough, cough, dough, tough, through. Strangely, none of these words rhyme with another nor with any p...(click to continue reading)

Estimated Reading Time: 5.7 minutes