Walter and Blanche

ClickThis is the poem my mom read when we buried Grandma and Grandpa’s ashes at the Rowley’s Bay Cemetery.  It is from mom’s book Pine Ridge Memories, and is based on her parents.   Blanche Cushman Casey Her footsteps, smallest movements, sound too loud in the silent house. Searching for his presence, she finds faint […]

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A Week in Door County

ClickMy brother Jeff and I drove to Door County, Wisconsin last Saturday.  Ostensibly it was to attend a week-long seminar about the Beatles at Bjorklunden, the Lawrence University center just south of Bailey’s Harbor on Lake Michigan. My mom joined us at Bjorklunden, although she is attending a course on “The Book of Kells.”  Honestly, […]

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