Category Archives: Comanche

The place where I grew up

Cooking things in a quandary: Chicken portuguesa

I made a famous secret recipe, but the reason for the secret might have disappeared. So should I publish how to make Chicken portuguesa? Continue reading

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Movie Night

We sat down to watch a cache of home movies this weekend at The Old Gray House, and we got to see ALL THE THINGS! Continue reading

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I found another one

Another air-check tape from KCOM, is what! Continue reading

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My father, 1943

My father as an aviation cadet, circa 1943. Continue reading

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Family Biographies: #2

The next biography is my father’s father’s father.  (Sounds like the Moody Blues, doesn’t it?) Continue reading

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Family Biographies: #1

Recently I had to write several biographical sketches of family members. Continue reading

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I have a hemstitcher

L made the sensible suggestion that it might have originally belonged to my great-grandmother. Continue reading

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I just ranted at my mother

That article will still suffer, because it won’t have her knowledge and experience behind it. Continue reading

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Asperges me, domine, and I’ll slam the door on you

The senior warden was so startled that he slammed the door, which then stuck.  Again. Continue reading

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Since the last time

In the thirty years I’ve been gone, everyone went and got old on me. Continue reading

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