Monthly Archives: April 2016

The Lies I Tell

Posted on April 25, 2016 by veldabrotherton

    A few months ago, I wrote about taking photos out of the car window including a view in my rear view mirror. Today looking for some other photos, I found two of those. I had been asked to … Continue reading →

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Fifties Innocence

Posted on April 19, 2016 by veldabrotherton

At the age of fifteen I went to work at a drug store for the summer. In those days there was a soda fountain with stools, all upholstered in red leather and tucked under a counter of the same color. … Continue reading →

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Frog Legs and Sinking a boat

Posted on April 11, 2016 by veldabrotherton

 After my dad came home from the South Pacific and World War II, he and a couple of his buddies went together and bought a little fishing cabin on the Ninescaw River outside Wichita, Kansas where we then lived. And … Continue reading →

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A hot wind and ice cream

Posted on April 5, 2016 by veldabrotherton

Who, me? Write a memoir? Believe it or not that has been suggested. I’ve spent my writing life telling other people’s stories. Some presented as the truth, others woven into fiction. But when I reached the age of 80 earlier … Continue reading →

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