“I need something from the attic,” my wife said to me the other morning as I was beginning my assault on the day’s crowded to-do list....

Good Old Days, July/August 2020 #writing #DennisLPeterson #reading #writers #Memories #familyhistory #editing

Zinsser was born October 7, 1922. Following service in the Army in North Africa and Italy during World War II, he returned to the United...

First, he calculated how much time he had had to that point of his life. (I think he was in his mid-70s at the time, having been born...

One of my earliest childhood memories is of sitting on the couch beside my grandfather (we called him Pappaw) in his house while he...

I’m thankful that I live in a country that affords me great freedoms, of expression, of worship, of opportunities to better myself, and...

Readers of this blog know by now that I’m a bibliophile, I love books and reading them. Granted, I’m selective in what I read, but within...

It’s school time again. You can’t avoid knowing that fact because of all the Walmart aisles crowded with school supplies for sale. (I...

The children of those early settlers either established farms (often quite large ones), towns, and cities or pressed further west to do...

We buried Virginia Mae Dietterich, my wife’s mother and my mother-in-law, on Monday. (In case you’ve been wondering, that’s why I haven’t...

Good Old Days, January-February 2018 issue: #reading #writers #marriage #Memories #publishing #romance #family #Lessonslearned...

My father-in-law was experiencing atrial fibrillation, his heart rate approaching 200. His doctors were sequentially trying several...

The difference between minor surgery and major surgery is determined by whether you are having it. That’s sort of the way it often is...

As I sat engaged in the various tasks of readying Christmas cards for mailing, I began to muse. I weighed how the practice has changed...

It’s always been hard, it seems, to get “back in the swing” once I’ve been away for a while, and the week just past has been no...

He was born on this date in 1928, about 11 months before the big crash. Most of his formative, pre-adolescent years were within that...

It’s interesting how something small and seemingly insignificant to others can trigger in one a vivid memory. This phenomenon can be, for...

On this date in history, several important events occurred. Columbus landed on San Salvador, discovering the New World in his quest to...

On this date in 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt approved a secret project that led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people...

All of us who are old enough to remember the event, remember where we were and what we were doing when we first heard the news of the...