by Dave Jackson

Maybe I’ve bitten off more than I can chew. I told Gail I wanted to write her column this month. She said yes, so here I am. Incidentally, this isn’t Gail writing, it’s Dave. But you probably figured it wasn’t Gail already.

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by Gail Jackson

Summertime, and the living is easy….”

Oh, if it were so!

Hectic schedules often leave little time for friendly, relaxing get-togethers with friends, family, neighbors or co-workers. Our intentions are good when we say “We have to get together some time,” or “Let’s do this more often,” but more often than not time slips away and the comfort of friendships often slips away with it.

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by Gail Jackson

As I was mulling over column ideas, I received a phone call from a frustrated daughter-in-law. I feel very sorry for her but I am also really thankful it is them and not us. We had our turns. Six of them. Their angelic little Kirk Titan has overnight become Terror Titan! Guess how old he is.

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by Gail Jackson

For Dave’s March birthday in 1999, the gifts from our children and I included a subscription to a photography magazine, art supplies and accompanying how-to books, jigsaw puzzles, emergency flares and simple emergency automotive supplies.
Our family was giving him things to further his hobbies and give him material to pursue new interests. We were giving him things to help him through what we all thought would be his impending widower-hood, about two months down the road.

I had become very ill in December and continued to decline in spite of medical efforts to discover what was wrong.

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by Gail Jackson

Really, aren’t we something!

Teenagers want to stress their individuality so they dress like their peer masses. Seemingly, more and more, many mothers want to be younger so they dress like their daughters. Apparently that desire isn’t a new thing. I just finished tracing a family from my line on census reports from 1880 through 1930. Amazingly two of the sisters had dropped nine years off their ages in that 50 year time span.

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