Thanks to Marianna Paulson over at the Auntie Stress blog and her recent post, "Capture the Ordinary," I was inspired to draft this brief memory post. When I was a child and throughout my teens, Dad and Mom whisked our family of six (four daughters) off on many adventures, by way of my hard-working father's Trans World […]
Eulogy for Grandmother: Observations With Love
By Jacqui Barrett-Poindexter, in collaboration with her sisters, Susan Barrett Hensel, Janet Barrett Pallett and Katherine Barrett De Boer. Written for the eulogy at our grandmother's funeral in February 2000. Glenn Barrett Howard's grandchildren are grateful to have had our grandmother around until her 96th year. We know we are lucky. However, that does not make […]
Throwback Thursday :: Family Vacation to Lisbon, Portugal
It was circa 1978, and our family traversed the globe for yet another European adventure – this time to Lisbon, Portugal. Thanks to my father's tenure as an inspector for Trans World Airlines (TWA), we regularly took off for such historically enchanting trips. I've spliced together a few memories from one of the DVDs my folks created […]