Tag
Algoma
3 entries
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Friday, December 11, 1987
Friday, December 11, 1987
Don had braces put on in September. He had to get them tightened today. I picked him up from school and after I took him out for lunch before I brought him back to school. Our Christmas tree is up…
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Friday, January 1, 1999 · Don Krumpos
The House That Held Him
My father, with my grandfather's help, put a full new central chimney into our farmhouse. That sentence seems almost unbelievable to me now. A chimney is not a shelf or a bench or a toy barn. It is not a…
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Tuesday, March 11, 2025 · Don Krumpos
Gertie, My Fierce Little Shadow
I met her in December 2008, in my Minneapolis apartment. I set down a fresh bowl of food and watched her take her first careful steps into our life together. She was a tortoiseshell — bold, independent, a little unpredictable.…