…Aunt Agnes tried so hard to be a good aunt! She always gave us Christmas presents, and paid for them out of her left-over grocery money, as frugal homemakers did back then. It never occurred to me to think about what she didn’t purchase for herself, in order to be able to bless us with […]
Author: Shari McMinn
excerpt CHAPTER 2 – THE PARKERS OF AURORA
“…Among our memories, there was one time in the thirties which we will never forget, and which you would have to experience to believe its horror. That was about the dust storms. We had been having years of drought throughout the Midwest: the Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma were the very center, but with states […]
excerpt CHAPTER 1 – GOD CUSHIONED OUR BLOW
…Not hearing the downstairs bathroom door reopen, I decided to go back down and check on Cary. Perhaps I could give him some stomach medicine, get him some water, or run a hot bath for him. I could see through the louvered door that he was slumped over, apparently sleeping. Cary was a funny guy […]