Arts and Crafts, the WWII Version

I’m not sure what’s to be gleaned from the observations I have about my grandfathers’ skill sets 40 and 50 years plus after they passed but while I was debating whether or not to polish a WWII necklace my father’s father made for my grandmother from old coins, it struck me how different this necklace […]

Let the Games Begin

When both my grandmothers, neither of who turned out to be with us in person much longer after this, were still alive we attended a family event together one last time. That is the fond part of this memory. One of my grandmothers, unsurprising in hindsight, was in the early stages of Alzheimer’s. There was an inkling […]