My baby, Kim, is thirty-one today. I never would have dreamed when I held that 4 1/2 pound, 16 inch, premature little baby girl that she would some day be one of my best friends and confidantes; that whenever we spent an afternoon together we would laugh until tears ran down our faces at things [...]
I had such a nice dream last night … Here’s how it went … I heard a commotion outside our bedroom window and it woke Lynn and I up. I looked outside and there were a bunch of men on our porch jawing while the next door neighbor and his buddies were tearing down the [...]
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I’ve got a new idea for a diet that I think I can work with. I am going to eat very carefully every day except for family celebration days … you know, like birthdays etc. I won’t eat sugar, won’t have things with flour, won’t have seconds and will drink lots of water. Let’s see, [...]
Mother was a “list” woman. She would have a grocery list, a list of daily activities, a list of weekly activities, and calendar of events … and she was way before the time of Hyrum Smith and his Franklin Planner!. She had lists for birthdays, lists for menus, lists for shopping, lists for repairs … [...]
When I say my dad, Lewis Allsop, was the salt of the earth I am not exaggerating. He had the biggest, non-judgmental heart of anyone I know. The above picture was taken the summer before he died, when he was 79 years old. Here is just one story about how he befriended a man and [...]
