Making butterscotch parfaits with Kathy at Aunt Annie’s…Christmas Eve and Thanksgiving at Auntie Irene’s…staying overnight at Auntie Vone’s and being scared of the dark because I couldn’t have a nightlight…”baptism practice: at Uncle Don’s cabin…riding the bus to Madison with Carol Johnson for State Speech…she was reading “Green Mansions” and I was in trouble with the relatives for doing “O Ye Jigs and Juleps” as a declamation (see “humor” and “coping skills” above)…pancakes in the summer kitchen…riding the hay wagon with the cousins while Uncle Fred tried to bale hay…Aunt Annie’s blue bowls for cucumbers…Wood River Baptist Church…Parn’s macaroni and cheese…staying with Nancy in her apartment in “the Cities”—she gave us handmade Barbie doll clothes…staying overnight with Judie and going out for supper and to a movie…singing harmony with Dad and sisters in the truck while he plowed driveways…Rook…Auntie Irene’s pantry…Dove soap in the basement…the red stool at Auntie Irene’s…the pigpen and granary at Auntie Annie’s…staying up late laughing with Val, Beck and Mom…reminiscing with the cousins…meeting my Washington relatives…and music, music, music….Thank you, Otto and Hulda!