Joyfully Retired

It’s Tuesday. Where are you? I’m in early nineteenth century Washington, D.C. learning about President Andrew Jackson. He’s a very complex man. I’m becoming an admirer of his but I’m also disappointed in some of the things he has done. I had no idea a sexual scandal marred his administration. This weekly meme is sponsored [...]

It’s Tuesday . . Where are you? is sponsored by Raider Girl 3 at An Adventure in Reading. I’m on Nantucket Island for the summer. I’m visiting with a multi-generaltional family who have a Summer House here. The whole family is interesting but I’m focusing on three of the women – 90 year old Nona, [...]

It’s Tuesday . . . Where are you? is a meme sponsored by Adventures in Reading. I’m a white girl in Memphis in 1956. I’ve been taught, by example, one way to look at and treat “colored folk.”  But, my experience teaches me something different. I’m reading In the Land of Cotton by Martha A. Taylor. [...]