Comics, Bannisters and Castles
Before we left for Giessen to meet Dad, I remember Mom taking our car to be shipped to Germany. It was a 1962 white Chevrolet station wagon….
Memories & Reflections, People
Stories & Experiences
Sprechen Sie Deutsch?
“Sprechen Sie Deutsch?” was one of the first expressions I learned while living in Germany. It means, “Do you speak German?” ….
Memories & Reflections
Outside City Limits
In this photo from my teenage years, I am wearing what I loved most at the time, a simple top and a pair of jeans …
Memories & Reflections
A Year with Momo and Papa
We had just moved back to Opelousas, Louisiana, from Highland Park, Illinois, when this photo was taken of my brother, Glenn, and me with our maternal grandmother ….
Memories & Reflections
Life With Papa and Momo on the Shell Road
I was twenty-one months old when we moved in with my grandparents in September 1959 and was a month shy of three years old when we moved out ….