Thinking of Helen

I might entitle this from one grandmother to another. Here is Wendy – now Grandma to six, making short breads using HER grandmother’s cookie cutters. We got talking about how old these must be. We think they must be at least 70 years old. Wendy has memories of her “Grandma” breaking open the baking things…

When we were young

Here we are – The Heralds of Hope. The Salvation Army’s 1981 to 1983 session of cadets. That’s Wendy and I on the bottom right. Lots of stories that came out of the faces here. Sadly we lost 5 of our session to cancer. But 35 years later we had a most interesting reunion! We…

2023 in review

When we were young SA officers I would get the statement telling me what our monthly pension would be. I didn’t really understand those statements in those days and I remember being shocked and worried that I would get $104/month! Yikes. I later realized that each year that number increased based on years of service,…