Barbara Thompson

My friend started hosting gatherings in her backyard several years ago, after our school switched from a junior high to a middle school. Lots of teachers were displaced and my friend gave us a place to gather during the summer to catch up with old friends. In the summer of 2020, she started having weekly […]

Warning: this story includes an injury and a hospital trip. If you don’t like such things, just look at the picture and move on. A long time ago, (I have to guess about 17 years ago, but I have no actual idea) I cut a chunk of my thumb off using a mandolin cutter (the

We got 13 ears of corn yesterday at a stand in Wisconsin when we stopped for gas. Corn stands are very available in Wisconsin, and not in Minnesota. We cooked some for lunch. Then we cooked some more. We ate it all. Since Keith is still sick, I ate most of it. We watched TV

Keith drove 2.25 hours south and Donna and Michael drove 2.25 hours north. Mexican food was eaten. I was exchanged. Hello again, home.

I was going to title this I want this so much, but I guess I don’t really, because I live in a cul-de-sac and not enough people walk by (no one walks by) to share it with me. It is a kaleidoscope yard art. AMAZING!!!! It is just off the sidewalk in front of a

When the kids were little, I came down every year to take them to the fair. We picked a color, and everyone wore that color. It was fun to see what each person figured out to wear, and we looked good in group pictures. My brother asked if I was coming for the fair this

Nancy and I drove down to Kenosha to visit our aunt and uncle. There was lots of traffic and we wouldn’t have made it if I had been driving. Good job, Nancy. (To be clear – I wouldn’t have crashed – I would just have gotten off the road for custard and given up.) We

Nancy woke me up out of a sound sleep. “David is here.” I was very confused. Why? Were we going somewhere? What time was it? What was happening? I sleep in the basement on the 40+ year old fold out couch. In the very dark. In the coolness. It is great. I came out of

My brother, David, invited us all to come to his house for a viewing of the movie Dare To Dream: the Alan Kulwicki Story. The movie came out in 2005 and told the story of car racer Alan Kulwicki. Kulwicki was a native of Milwaukee, and the movie was filmed around Milwaukee. It also co-starred

So, we were playing a board game and I looked across the table at my sister, Donna, and asked, “Which one of us is Grace and which one of us is Frankie?” Grace and Frankie is a Netflix show with Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin about two old women who are nothing alike, sharing a