We spend much of the summer months at our home on the Lake of the Ozarks in mid-southern Missouri. Just off the main Highway 54 is a very small hamlet of Roach, Missouri. Who ever named it had it in for the roaches there! During the 1940’s and 1950’s,...
I did not have much of a relationship with Mother’s mother, Grandmother Esther Edberg Shirley. As a child, my family and I would make the early morning drive from Sedalia, Missouri to Waterloo, Iowa about twice a year to see our Swedish Grandmother. She was a...
During my journey through college art, I would get professors who liked to mix things up. During my final winter term at Central Missouri State College, Warrensburg, Missouri, I took one of my last studio art classes, Advanced Drawing. Off hand, I bet it was Dr. Ed...
