Our yard flooded regularly. Whenever there was a particularly big rain storm, all the water from the fields that surrounded our house would drain through our yard to the little brook just past the weeping willow on the Drolls’ side of the fence. Our house, garage, and barn were all on hills with a valley [...]

Posted on January 8th, 2009 by Kathleen
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I should apologize in advance for the woeful supply of pictures I have of my old home. I was able to get some images from Google, but they’re from very far away and show several things not present in my childhood.
Sometime after my brother Lee was born, but while I was still 2 we [...]

Posted on January 6th, 2009 by Kathleen
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I feel like my memory is Swiss cheese. I have all of these disjointed memories with no order to them, so hopefully writing them down will help me make sense of them all.
I was born at Marion General Hospital in Marion, Ohio. I have only three memories and one story from the time we [...]

Posted on December 28th, 2008 by Kathleen
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My mom describes me as a very happy smiling baby. She says I was a very easy baby, which was good because my older sister (Barbara) was not well pleased when I was born. My sister was 10 days away from turning 2 when I as born and I am told that when my mother [...]

Posted on December 26th, 2008 by Kathleen
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My friend Erin has been writing about her childhood and as I’ve enjoyed reading her blog post, I’ve thought I ought to write my own.
Maybe the best place to start is with a short description of my parents.  (I copied the pictures from a little book my mother made me, so they’re not ideal)
In many [...]

Posted on December 26th, 2008 by Kathleen
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