Just Holding it Together
As a child living in Friesland, sooner or later you’d wander on down to the tracks. We did a great deal of playing on the tracks. Grabbing a ride on the train was often discussed, but nobody appeared serious about it… until. Until one day, someone’s brain advanced far beyond the rest of us and suggested, that with proper planning, it could be done.
A Ride On The Train Read More
Friends! I last left you with my brother and three neighborhood friends in the cemetery trying to learn how to smoke when the town grocer, Tuenis Tillema joined them for …
Smoking Adventures: Part Two Read More If you’ve grown up in a small town, you know that there are some serious benefits to having spent your formative years roaming safely, freely, and without a care- well, …
Smoking Adventures Read More
I was not born in a barn, but I did get stuck in the barn door. I’m sure you have paused from your reading and are thinking to yourself, “Hmm, …
Stuck In the Barn Door Read More
I’m sure what I am about to tell you will go down in the history books of motherhood. There are dandies and then… there is this gem. A little girl, …
Childhood Capers ~ What smells? Read More
Life is seldom boring on Trosky Road. Join me as I give you a slice of my American life.
My America: The Secret Life of Trosky Road Read More
It can probably be said that I was always sassily truthful in my younger years. I am probably lucky to have survived many a spanking from my dad’s 2×4 hands …
Was That Supposed to Hurt? Read More
It’s rhubarb season! Enjoy some delicious recipes,
Rhubarb Fever! Read More
I had spied those red apple beauties from the biking through the church parking lot. The temptation to sneak under the fence into the horse pasture was mounting. But, I …
Red Apple Beauties Read More
Where the DMU ( Dutch Mothers Underground) got their start no one knows for sure. But it is thought to have been birthed at a 3 pm tea time in …
The Dutch Mothers Underground Read More