Family Stories

Two animals raised me, and trained me. Yes, my parents raised me, but I didn't respect them until much later. My sister had much to teac...

B. B. Brandy was also "outside the house," but he deserves his own story. When I was in 8th or 9th grade, friends and I used to go...

A few days back, I finally planted the end of a bag of summer bulbs. The first of the bag are already up, but most of the last bit were at l...

Written while we were up at the cabin for a day, just because. The first pets I remember are the cat Mousie (guess what her job was!) and ...

Dad's rule was: no animals in the house. However, when he brought Soo-Ling home, a young seal-point Siamese cat, that changed a bit. Fir...

Thanks to Charley Kempthorne for coming to the South King County Genealogical Society today, and inspiring this blog. This is the story I ...