On this day... Thoughts & Things

Leisure Reading

I love to read, so I try to make time daily for reading. I have a wide range of interests, such as what I call mindless entertainment. You know the kind that helps you relax and get your mind off things. It just entertains, makes me feel good, and I don’t have to try to figure it out. I like to read those books in the evening before I go to sleep because it clears…

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On this day...

September 27th

On this day in 1940, Stella Baxter married John Connley in the parlor of the local preacher’s home with the preacher’s wife as the witness. A year later, the nation was embroiled in a World War, later to be popularly known as WWII, and in January 1942, they welcomed their first son, Ron, my dad. John, my grandpa, was drafted into the Army in 1943 and my grandmother, Stella, and their two sons, went to…

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