Rain, a Hundred Years Ago

We’ve had wonderful autumn rain lately and it has been a blessing. This morning, I’m thinking backward about a hundred years and imagining what it might have been like at the Levi and Edna Latty Farm, my grandparents’ farm, in the early part of the twentieth century. It would be dark on the farm at […]

Chapter Two, The Key

Chapter Two, The Key

What had caused the tear in the beautiful lining? Maybe I could repair it. Although I wasn’t much of a seamstress, surely I could mend that.  I ran my hand around the lining, noting its smoothness. What was this? Something hard was lodged between the lining and the leather. Turning the purse upside down and […]