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Joyce met Ted when they were both members of the CMS and partnered him to the CMS Ball.  The friendship and courtship gradually grew.  And all was going along comfortably until Joyce was accepted into the Women's Police Force in June 1959.  When she told Ted he went very quiet and...

THE CABIN AT “HARMONY BEND”               Perfect marriages produce an amazing force; a synergistic magic defying logic or chance.  Our marriage has spawned so many of these extraordinary results--- four children (2 & 2), shared coaching-teaching careers, Peace Corp Service, Joint publication, etc. ---that we have even given them a...

Annette's first fell in love when she was on an extended holiday in Watson South Australia on the Nullabor Plain. She was 16 at the time and met a young man working in the railway gang and living in the Railway Camp   Their courtship blossomed in the Billiard Room, which...

Ruth was 21 when she met Murdoch, her future spouse.  He was not what she expected and she wasn't sure that he was the 'right one'.

Judith moved to Darwin from Adelaide to live with her parents and younger siblings in 1970.  She soon was gathered in by workmates and friends and started socialising with the young people of Darwin.  Food was all trucked in to Darwin at that time, and there were not many places to...

Judith shares with us a very poignant story of her first love - a young boy named Geoff who she shared her life with from a very early age until she was 7 years old.  His family moved away, but he came back into her life as a close friend when...

Ruth tells us an interesting story of her mother's advice on the best place to meet a nice christian boy.  She then goes on to give us a somewhat amusing account of her first date and her first love.    

Our family had a close relationship with the Price family from as early as I can remember, but the relationship became much closer when my sister Jean became a caregiver (a word we didn't use in the 1950's) for Mrs. Ramage.  She sat with Mrs. Ramage after school (after Anna, the...

A few days after meeting a very attractive young lady at the Chicago USO on the 4th of July weekend, 1954, I pulled her phone number out of my pocket.  “Anne DeNicolo” was the name above the telephone number.  As I stood by the wall-mounted pay phone in the Fifth Army...

    IT TRULY IS WHAT YOU THINK IT COULD BE   One afternoon we were walking like we did every day we were in Aruba when a coconut fell from a tree right next to us. They say when it falls from the tree it's ready to eat. We took...

New Year’s Day, 1954 found me bundling up the few belongings the Army allowed me to have into my reasonably nice looking 1948 “Kaiser.”  “Kaiser” being one of the several new car company start-ups that bloomed and died in the years following “The War.”  I was officially a tuba player in...

The best decision I ever made was to marry Catherine Glenn. WeI met  at a dance called" The Oaks". While in the Navy and training at Fort Mammoth in New Jersey and then New York City, I was able to get home on weekends and I would to go to the...

As I describe a proud moment that involved members of my  immediate family, the event I have chosen is the birth of my first child, our daughter Chantel. At the end of July and beginning of August, I was involved in teaching at the 8th Annual Genealogical Priesthood Research Seminar held on the...

After the demise of our sign business in 1989 Christine, the boys and I were taken in by one of our clients and good friends, Robert Cyr, who was about to restore a 240 year old condemned farmhouse into a fabulous Victorian gingerbread Inn. It was just what we needed after...

True friends are ones who are your friends no matter what.  They will be with you in the jail cell as the addage goes, saying "Damn we had a good time!!"  They are the ones there with you through thick and thin.  Those are the most precious of friendships because they...

Normal 0 false false false EN-AU X-NONE X-NONE   The very first man a little girl loves is her Dad, and this special lifelong relationship should be nurtured and cherished. Like other small girls, I adored my 6’6” Dad who was always a ‘larger than life’ personality and a helpless practical...

Over the years I had lots of boyfriends, but somehow for me marriage wasn't in the stars. I was very career focused and really hadn't found The One.  I dated but just hadn't had that spark.  And as fiercely independent as I am, well, marriage wasn't really high on my list...

You know how some people just love reminiscing about high school and never miss a reunion?  I'm not one of them.  In fact, I probably wouldn't attend a high school reunion if they held it in my living room.  It was three years of pure torture for me--an endurance event. It...

The “Korean Police Action,” as Truman called it, had been fought up and down that miserable peninsula for many bloody months and had come to a point where daily “success” was measured by how many North Korean and Chinese dead bodies had been created that day.  It looked as if it...

I jumped the gun and wrote about my first "love," and to this day I do believe it WAS love and I've written about Mary Sue, my 4th grade "first date."  Between Mary Sue and Lois, my first love, I dated VERY seldom.  However there was Sue M.  She was a...