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This is the last post on my Christmas tree ornaments for this holiday season - we're still in the Twelve Days of Christmas , and my tree...

When my children were young, my parents sent a couple of Santa ornaments for our Christmas tree.  They appear to have been made from salt do...

My daughter Diane made a LOT of things with pony beads and plastic lacing cord in the 1990s, all at home.  Here's one that works as a Ch...

The first of these two Christmas ornaments was made by my daughter Diane in 1995, and also includes a photo of her: The second ornament was ...

On our road trip this past October, I gave my children most of my Christmas tree ornaments, especially ones that they made.  I did keep a fe...

Four years ago today, I lost my mother, Geraldine Margaret Guokas Pape , to the effects of nonfluent/agrammatic primary progressive aphasia ...

Six years ago, my father, Frederick Henry Pape , died rather suddenly at age 88.  I still can't believe it's been that long, and I s...

Halloween skit in 1973 at St. Agnes Academy, Houston, Texas - cropped from the 1974 Veritas yearbook.  That's me in the middle in the d...

October 19, 2023, would have been the 95th birthday of my mother, Geraldine Margaret Guokas Pape (1928-2019) . This photo was probably taken...

My aunt, Jo Ann (Sister Jean Marie) Guokas is 93 today!  Here is a photo of her from 1946 - she is at the lower right.  She is with her comp...