Penrose Mornings: Blood Family Blog

Who can identify this building?  (Hint:  Only the older, more mature siblings will stand a chance of remembering what this is).  You must wr...

This little beaded purse used to live in Mother's cedar chest with the other treasures of the past, including Mother's flapper dres...

Old Main, where I was an occasional student janitor 24 years later My sister Liz and I both studied this annual repeatedly.  I did not know ...

Mother (Minnie Blood) wrote down every penny received and every penny spent for many years.  Then, one day, she just stopped writing everyth...

This tea set came to me for Christmas either when I was 4 (1939) or 5 (1940). We played with it constantly, having tea parties with our ma...

When the Wurlitzer piano came into our lives in the summer of 1948, Mother unearthed old music that she had been saving from the time in th...

Here was our past! Right before my eyes in Country Sampler, Nov 2007. You are right, magic was in the simplest of things.

Mother's Bible and the pink heart-shaped necklace Dad gave her late in life.  Does everyone remember David slaying Goliath as well as I ...