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Lew Gundy
Oct 15, 20241 min read
Happy Birthday Mom!
Hey Mom, As I have NO idea how to write a poem for your birthday, here is one that is AI generated. Love Ya! Happy Birthday! Happy...
Wilma Gundy
Oct 7, 20241 min read
Symbol of Communion
In the French countryside We visit a 15th century church The church is locked, but on one side We notice a small room The...
Wilma Gundy
Sep 25, 20241 min read
October
October, queen of the Autumn ball, Strolls into the hall. She wears robes of every hue Scarlet maple, yellow aspen, and purple...
Wilma Gundy
Sep 19, 20241 min read
Teaching Love of Poetry
When I first started to teach at Drake Junior High in 1961, the only books available for my 7th grade classes was a set of grammar books,...
Wilma Gundy
Sep 12, 20241 min read
Teaching Literature
September elicits memories of teaching. When I started as a teacher in Jeffco, it was January, 1961 and I took over a class of 7th...
Wilma Gundy
Sep 2, 20241 min read
Let’s Meet for Coffee
So frequently when I am reading a book, the characters meet for a cup of tea if in England, or coffe in USA, or bourbon in a bar in the...
Wilma Gundy
Aug 28, 20241 min read
September
September is Mother Nature calling us in from recess Assigning us new tasks and new goals To accomplish in the days of...
Wilma Gundy
Aug 21, 20241 min read
Distinguished Ancestor, part 3
In 1848, friends of Ambrose persuaded him to run for the Constituent Assembly. He lost the election. However, as an advocate for...
Wilma Gundy
Aug 16, 20241 min read
Distinguished Ancestor, part 2
After seeing the bust of Lloyd’s great-great grandfather in the Troyes museum, we were anxious to learn more about this man who had so...
Wilma Gundy
Aug 9, 20241 min read
Distinguished Ancestor
When we planned a trip to France in1979, Lloyd’s cousin urged us to go to Troyes, France where, in the local museum, was a sculpture of...
Wilma Gundy
Aug 2, 20241 min read
August
August is a spendthrift with Summer’s heat Hot sauna nights Long slow-paddle days Squandering molten rays on Mother Earth Sun-drizzling...
Wilma Gundy
Jul 27, 20241 min read
Summer is Vacation
Lloyd’s job, trouble-shooting as a mechanical engineer, required that he cover all the states west of the Mississippi River. He flew...
Wilma Gundy
Jul 8, 20241 min read
Wimbledon, tennis and me
I have been enjoying watching Wimbledon tennis. I am thrilled that Fritz won his match this morning. I am so grateful to Rev. Holdeman...
Wilma Gundy
Jul 3, 20241 min read
Ice Cream Celebrates the 4th
Dad loved to celebrate the 4th of July with firecrackers and ice cream! After Mother made the ice cream with our farm’s fresh eggs, milk,...
Wilma Gundy
Jun 12, 20241 min read
My Fun-loving Dad
Dad loved kids and had a house full to love. My sister Eileen remembers when she was three, Dad would hold Sarah age one on his lap in...
Wilma Gundy
May 21, 20242 min read
My Hardworking Mother
When I loaned my book - Tales from Old Soddy - to a friend, she wrote a thank you note, “I enjoyed reading about your hardworking mother...
Wilma Gundy
Apr 30, 20241 min read
Murray Magic
I probably shouldn’t, but want to celebrate! Murray Magic Clever as a Joker Hungry as Caldwell-Pope Strong as a Gordon Quick as MPJ...
Wilma Gundy
Apr 22, 20241 min read
Benefits of Journaling
Confession: I am claustrophobic, any small enclosed space makes me panicky. It is a characteristic I inherited from my otherwise fearless...
Wilma Gundy
Apr 12, 20241 min read
Photos of Birds
My son-in-law, Hans Stuart, loves birds. Hence his career working for the Fish and Wildlife Service and the Bureau of Land Management was...
Wilma Gundy
Feb 14, 20241 min read
My Valentine
Our reserve kept my husband, Lloyd, and me from being demonstrative in public; yet our love was visible to others. In 1994 (we had been...
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