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1984

16 entries

  1. Sunday, January 1, 1984 · Don Krumpos

    Not Made for the Fair

    Every year of grade school I built something. Second grade was a papier-mâché earth, cut open to show the layers. Crust, mantle, core — the planet sliced like fruit so you could see what it was made of. I did…

  2. Sunday, January 1, 1984 · Don Krumpos

    One Railing Off

    It rained most of the weekend, and when we came out onto the overlook the valley was giving itself up to mist. The trees below were half-erased, the far ridge gone soft and white, the whole place breathing through wet…

  3. Sunday, January 1, 1984 · Don Krumpos

    That Was Our Land

    Every year our parents gave us new boundaries. At five and six we could only go to the end of the driveway. The next year we could go out onto the road, but only in front of the driveway, to…

  4. Sunday, January 1, 1984 · Don Krumpos

    The Books in His Bedroom

    My father had a massive collection of books from college. At least it felt massive to me then. They lived in his bedroom, which made them different from ordinary household books. They were not simply around, not part of the…

  5. Sunday, January 1, 1984 · Don Krumpos

    The Bridge to Making

    The bridge has a date, or close to one. I was about eight years old, and two things happened that year that changed the trajectory of everything that followed. I started private art lessons with a man named John Gordon.…

  6. Sunday, January 1, 1984 · Don Krumpos

    The School of Too Much

    It caught up with me in the Gate House, the first room of the tour, forty-two years after the first time I stood in it. Not a memory, exactly. Memory usually arrives with one small object in its hand: a…

  7. Thursday, January 19, 1984

    Thursday, January 19, 1984

    Seems impossible that all these years have gone by. So much happened since I last wrote in this journal. Donny and Helen are such great kids. They're really getting to be quite the Christians. Marge and Jim are in the…

  8. Saturday, January 21, 1984

    Saturday , January 21, 1984

    Today was really cold again. Hope we get some decent weather pretty soon. Keith is working 3-11 today. We had a pretty quiet day. Keith had a couple of errands in town so he took Helen in for her dance…

  9. Sunday, January 22, 1984

    Sunday, January 22, 1984

    This morning we went to church and came right home after. We invited Dorothy up for lasagna. Keith had to work 3-11 today. Donny and Helen played outside this afternoon. I did chores. The weather was in the high 20's…

  10. Wednesday, April 4, 1984

    Wednesday, April 4, 1984

    We've been having some very nice weather now. Last month Donny and Helen had chicken ox. They had very bad cases of them. Glad that's over for them. The kids are starting computer classes at school. They like that. Helen…

  11. Wednesday, August 1, 1984 · Don Krumpos

    The Cook

    Once a year, my father had a reason for me to skip church. On the morning of the Grace Lutheran summer picnic, we did not put on church clothes. We did not sit in the pews. We got up early,…

  12. Sunday, August 19, 1984

    Sunday, August 19, 1984

    It's really been awhile sine I wrote in my journal — just can't figure out where the time goes. So many things have happened since I last wrote. We joined Central Assembly of God this last July. We were baptized…

  13. Tuesday, August 21, 1984

    Tuesday, August 21, 1984

    We had rain this afternoon. This morning was very nice. Aaron stayed overnight last night with Donny and Kelly came over this afternoon to play with Helen. School starts in a week — doesn't seem possible that summer's almost over.…

  14. Wednesday, August 22, 1984

    Wednesday, August 22, 1984

    Today was a little cooler; you can feel fall in the air. Seems like I worked hard but didn't get much accomplished today.

  15. Thursday, August 23, 1984

    Thursday, August 23, 1984

    Today was cooler again. Nice for working. Seems like the only thing you hear lately is the election coming up in November. I think this will be a real important one. Our tomatoes still aren't ripe like everyone else seems…

  16. Saturday, December 1, 1984 · Don Krumpos

    Keep Playing Here

    It was winter in Wisconsin, sometime in the mid-eighties, when snow came in deep drifts against the hedgerows and the cold had a blue cast by late afternoon. My sister and I had been outside for hours, tunneling through snowbanks,…