Episode 33: Life with Cromwell
Cromwell and Jane stopped by our house almost every day. They were always hearty eaters but as time went by, they really began to pack...
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Still Waters
a serialized memoir
by Kristin Lindstrom
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- Jan 28, 2022
- 2 min
Episode 32: Cromwell
One day six years ago, Perry was on our back deck in Arlington, Virginia, surveying our domain. He wasn’t out there doing anything in...
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- Jan 24, 2022
- 1 min
Episode 31: Junior's Domain
When Earl and Dolly Huntington sell their house, which sits behind Junior’s property, he is concerned about the Hispanic family that...
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- Jan 22, 2022
- 2 min
Episode 30: Junior's Menagerie
Junior has a range of pets that come and go over the years, including a raccoon, a skunk and a crow. The racoon develops a taste for beer...
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- Jan 21, 2022
- 1 min
A Digression
My grandfather, D.G. Pfoutz, is the second man standing from the right in this photo. Someone has helpfully pointed him out with an...
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- Jan 18, 2022
- 3 min
Episode 29: Junior
Our immediate neighbors to the left are Junior, his wife Jeannie and their five children. There are usually at least two dead cars on...
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- Jan 13, 2022
- 3 min
Episode 28: Emily
Guy's half-sister Emily and her brother John. Among other pieces of her jewelry, Grandmother gives me a black and white enameled gold...
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- Jan 12, 2022
- 1 min
A Digression
stillwatersmemoir.com Here is the goofiest picture of my father I ever found. He's in his Navy swabbies, although I'm stumped as to why...
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- Jan 9, 2022
- 2 min
Episode 27: GoGo and Me II
When I’m young and go to visit Grandmother, I sometimes stay a few nights. Grandmother loves Lawrence Welk and when I’m staying over a...
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- Jan 4, 2022
- 3 min
Episode 26: GoGo and Me
It’s odd that Ruth demands we call her by the formal title of ‘Grandmother.’ It seems like a grab at elevating her position. After all,...
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- Dec 31, 2021
- 3 min
Episode 25: The War Years with Ruth
Shirley and Guy are married in 1943. They make a handsome couple, he with his brown hair, blue eyes, and Navy uniform, Shirley, with dark...
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- Dec 23, 2021
- 3 min
Episode 24: Merry Christmas, Bah Humbug II
On Christmas Eve, the men at the Cabin John Volunteer Fire Department get juiced up and drive one of the fire engines around the...
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- Dec 20, 2021
- 1 min
But I Digress. . .Where's Willis?
My parents were friends with the Connors for many years. Mom worked with Faye at the University. Faye was a professor and Willis worked...
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- Dec 17, 2021
- 2 min
Episode 23: Merry Christmas, Bah Humbug
My mother favors a balsam fir tree. We go to Bethesda or Friendship Heights to get one. It takes time to pick the right one out, time...
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- Dec 14, 2021
- 2 min
But I Digress: The Great Family Potato Uprising
Five days before Christmas, my mother phoned me and asked me to bring mashed potatoes for the Christmas table. I agreed, potatoes being...
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- Dec 9, 2021
- 2 min
Episode 22: Little Lord Fauntleroy
Like many ladies of her time, my grandmother Ruth is enamored of the story of Little Lord Fauntleroy. While I doubt she ever read the...
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- Dec 6, 2021
- 2 min
Episode 21: Where Some of It Began
My father’s mother is one of 12 children in the Schaal family of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. Like a lot of families in this area, they...
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- Nov 30, 2021
- 2 min
Episode 20: My Mother the Scofflaw
Like many people, Shirley drives more slowly the older she gets. But she took umbrage with those around her who wanted to go faster. “I’m...
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- Nov 23, 2021
- 2 min
Episode 19: Holiday Fun
In the old days, the woman of the house and the daughters spent long hours preparing Thanksgiving dinner. So it is at our house. John,...
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- Nov 18, 2021
- 2 min
Episode 18: The Day Starts
John gets up very early, 5:30, to go to work. He cannot boil an egg but makes himself toast and coffee. On the rare occasion when one of...
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