There are books and then, there are covers or dust jackets for hardbound books. I recently came across quite a few books published in the late 1940s with dust jackets intact. They are intriguing, interesting and nice to behold. Can we judge a book by its cover, maybe not. But we can quickly get an…
The Spirit of the Gift: A Box of ChocolatesTucked in an old trunk, an empty box of chocolates with an inscription, Kenneth’s first box of chocolates given by Uncle Darrel Sept. 7, 1926. The old box is fragile; it was constructed of paper but, it had survived over the course of eighty-eight years! I imagine that…
Tucked in an old trunk, an empty box of chocolates with an inscription, Kenneth's first box of chocolates given by Uncle Darrel Sept. 7, 1926. The old box is fragile; it was constructed of paper but, it had survived over the course of eighty-eight years! I imagine that Kenneth left the box behind when he…
Back in the day, when we were in college in Kirksville, a young man from Brooklyn moved into our neighborhood. It was his first time outside of a city. We did the best we could to calm him - even though there was no McDonalds, even though there were no buses, department stores, big restaurants…