Life with boys … come on, stop playing with fire … (it’s a snow day here in St. Charles) Continue reading

Sue Hughes was trying to track down an old Christmas photo of Aunt Jo as a little girl, still with blonde curls, wearing a shirt that AraBelle had given her. Sue still had the little size 2-T shirt and was getting a box of baby clothes ready for Anna. Her idea was to include a… Continue reading

Tonight I sewed Tyler’s last merit badge onto his sash … and I may have shed a tear or two. On Tyler’s 18th birthday, in a few weeks, he will “age out” of Boy Scouts and will no longer participate as a youth, ending what has been a 12-year experience for him. This week he… Continue reading

Recovered Jo Zeimet StoryWorth story — November 5, 2019. Where did you go on vacations as a child? We didn’t really go on many vacations as such. My mom loved to travel, and could easily drive to California in one long haul. She said that Daddy would start heading for home as soon as the… Continue reading

Recovered Jo Zeimet StoryWorth story — November 5, 2019. What were your favorite toys as a child? I had to think about the question, “what was your favorite toy as a child,” because I don’t think “toy” is what lit my jets. I could remember a few interesting things, like my mother made sure we… Continue reading

By Jo Zeimet What was my mother like as a kid? Boy, who knows? I realized thinking about this that I had little idea what her life was like for her. What would it be like, living in a brick duplex in hot, freezing, and barren Edgemont SD? — Three kid, not many friends, no… Continue reading

By Jo Zeimet “First Big Trip” turns on the definition of both first and big, doesn’t it? Well, the first big trip that was really an adventure was around 1976. In graduate school, I had taken a course in 19th Century Art and was avid for Impressionists. I had talked some about this with my… Continue reading

By Jo Zeimet Peter William Zeimet was in the middle of 9 kids, raised up in a little house with attached general store in Pringle SD. Daddy said he liked to devil his brother Dave some when they were little. Dave was clean and tidy, so Daddy would get him down on the ground, pull… Continue reading

Life with boys … at any given moment an army may be poised to attack …. Continue reading

Life with boys … Me: “You did that just to bug me” … “I do lots of things just to bug you” … Me: “You are not wrong.” Continue reading