Tagged with World War Two
My granddad, Horace Adams, turns 89 today. I called this morning to wish him a Happy Birthday, and when he answered, he told me he was reading. That he was reading was good news. Last summer, he had cataract surgery on his good eye. A scratched cornea during his recovery caused concern that he wouldn’t [...]
Four months after my father’s mother died, my Granddad called to ask my sister and me if we would come help clean out his attic. My grandmother, Glennis Smith Adams, grew up in northwest Georgia during the Great Depression. Breakfast, she often told me, was sometimes only a biscuit dunked in a cup of coffee [...]
Last winter, there were days that I thought I wouldn’t survive until summer. I did, though, and today my family leaves for Ft. Lauderdale to hop cruise aboard the Oasis of the Seas that leaves tomorrow. The laziness is about to commence. I will, most likely, achieve a legendary level of slothfulness. One of the [...]
I greeted my grandfather with a quick hug and then slid into the booth opposite him at our regular Friday lunch spot. As a young man, he was a fiery redhead with the proverbial temper to match the hair. Now, at eighty-seven, he has the same amount of hair that he had fifty years ago, [...]
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