American Maven Lady

Later on when I was more capable of doing something to get my own breakfast my mom bought boxes of the new product called Instant Breakfast....

Although I lived most of my weekends with grandparents thankfully my mother made every effort to keep me living with her during the week. Ob...

                     Gran (Mildred) and me in our Easter outfits Anyone learning about my life can easily observe the insufficiency of male ...

                                  The New England Primer I’ve continued pondering how death is censured from our everyday modern lives. O...

Great grandmom became too ill to continue living with us or to help care for me just after my first year of school. Other than the amusement...

       Great-grandmom and me (really my step-Great-grandmom, Dutch’s mother) The final divorce between Elle and George took awhile but there...

                Phyllis Schlafly with President Ronald Reagan I’d like to stand on a worldwide house top and yell so everyone could hear and...

Dangerously standing up in my carriage- asserting myself early on J  I wanted to stand up and be counted! Sadly, by Mother’s Day of that com...

                 The house Elle & George bought just before I turned three. When my mother Elle tried to make things work out with Georg...

Now I think “If only”. If only someone had asked me questions when I was a child. Maybe I would have been able to express my inner world. T...

The contrast between the housekeeping standards of my two grandmothers gave me a lot to consider. Mildred had a depression derived propensit...

The way the city market looked. My grandparents had a scale and glass case for meats in their grocery store like the ones pictured here. I ...

My Gran (my Dad George’s mother) and my own baby. Even as she beautifully aged Gran was fit and maintained strong muscular arms and hands fr...

This week we had winter sickness in our house so I made my own concoction which was a big hit in taste and comfort. The original version of ...

                My Grandmother Mildred and me- she always dressed me in beautiful outfits. Both of my grandmothers showed me love the way o...

My Gran and me (Anna, my Dad George’s mother) The store my grandparents owned and operated was located at the front of their house. Their h...

My dad George started out as a good husband and father but sadly the influence of alcohol addiction squelched his personal and professional ...

Marv, my biological father The day Elle walked away from Marv she had no idea what to do or how to handle her plight. She would not conside...