There are books and then, there are covers or dust jackets for hardbound books. I recently came across quite a few books published in the late 1940s with dust jackets intact. They are intriguing, interesting and nice to behold. Can…
The Spirit of the Gift: A Box of ChocolatesTucked in an old trunk, an empty box of chocolates with an inscription, Kenneth’s first box of chocolates given by Uncle Darrel Sept. 7, 1926. The old box is fragile; it was constructed…
Tucked in an old trunk, an empty box of chocolates with an inscription, Kenneth's first box of chocolates given by Uncle Darrel Sept. 7, 1926. The old box is fragile; it was constructed of paper but, it had survived over…
Back in the day, when we were in college in Kirksville, a young man from Brooklyn moved into our neighborhood. It was his first time outside of a city. We did the best we could to calm him - even…
