February 2024
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An excerpt from “Just Walk Away – A remembrance of growing up in the 50s in Central Iowa” I started school when I was four years old. Because I was the oldest, I always got to be the first one to test the waters for everything that the kids in our household had to do.…
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An excerpt from my story about growing up in Central Iowa in the 50s The Great Outdoors in Marshall County We spend all our time outdoors unless it’s really bad weather. The only time we are indoors is when it’s crazy hot and humid, a howling blizzard or a thunderstorm with a tornado in it.…
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We got Teddy from the Oakland, California shelter in 2009. I had just left my husband three months before and Ari and I were living in El Cerrito. We wanted a dog for a companion. When we met Teddy he roamed all over the visitor’s yard and then came over to us and laid down…