by Gerry Furgason | Aug 19, 2023 | FAMILY
When the Florida family lived in Clearwater, the boys decided to take me out into the woods to explore their favorite hiding places, while I was visiting their home one summer. They prepared by scraping long sticks on the front sidewalk to sharpen them so we...
by Gerry Furgason | Aug 19, 2023 | FAMILY
Years ago, a few days before Christmas, three-year-old Amber Leigh declared she knew Santa would bring her a doll buggy so that she could ride her much-loved little family around the art classrooms of the little red brick cottage on Chestnut Street. After...
by Gerry Furgason | Aug 19, 2023 | FAMILY
Some of the toys in the attic had been stored for over 15 years but there had to be something I could use for one-year-old Nick. I had almost completed Christmas shopping for the Florida children when my mother went into the hospital just up the hill...
by Gerry Furgason | Aug 19, 2023 | FAMILY
We were watching a TV program and the scene shifted to a mother and small child sitting on a bed, their hands folded for nighttime prayers. There were no bunkbeds in the scene, but for a moment I stood beside a wooden ladder preparing for our nightly...
by Gerry Furgason | Aug 19, 2023 | FAMILY
I thought of Grandma Furgason as more than a mother-in-law. She was my friend. It was to her home that I first went to when leaving Illinois Avenue for good. So I did not think it unusual that she “called” me at 2:30 a.m., waking me from a sound sleep...
by Gerry Furgason | Aug 19, 2023 | FAMILY
Simple phrases often become an adage for generations to respect or rally around, but sometimes deserving quotes are forgotten and through non-use, fade away and are all but lost until an appropriate moment necessitates a recall. We were going to...
