The Depot summer season kicks off this next week with the introduction of a number of new weekly & monthly events: The Cook’s Garden (1 -2:30 p.m. on the second and fourth Sundays of each month). Come talk gardening and … Continue reading →
Feeling stressed? There is a simple solution that will cost you a whole lot less than stress-related medical bills or years of therapy. Try coloring. Go to you local toy store or book store and pick up a coloring book; swing by … Continue reading →
Disney, best known for magic, had a particular method of magic in Mary Poppins that has always fascinated me…chalk art…sidewalk art…street art. In the movie, Mary Poppins and company fall through the art and into a land where carousel horses … Continue reading →
My parents didn’t buy me a set of alphabet blocks when I was a kid. They didn’t have to. I played with my mother’s set of blocks, blocks dating from the early 1930s. They were wonderful blocks. In addition to … Continue reading →
My grandparents had a large concrete pad behind their house that was routinely marred by chalk from the last snow to the first snow. Hopscotch and foursquare lines in white chalk, lines that had to be redrawn a couple of … Continue reading →
Sitting in a drawer in my house, protected from being turned into a chew toy for the depot puppies, is an old, thread-bared, and well-loved bear, named “Bear.” He is approximately seven months older than I, so he is, in … Continue reading →
My Grandmother Nell collected porcelain head dolls and spent evenings sewing new dresses; roamed the Kansas countryside with an old Brownie camera looking for interesting images to accompany her history articles for the Kansas State Historical Society journal; scrapbooked everything … Continue reading →
My father, for reasons known only to him and perhaps to my mother, decided to go to graduate school in Sociology after nearly a decade as a Presbyterian minister, first in Montana and then in Missouri. As a kid, it … Continue reading →