A Less Beautiful Inheritance – Silly Outhouse Stein

My grandparents had a cabinet full of beer steins. In that collection there was one that always fascinated me, Grandpa’s ceramic outhouse stein. When my parents asked me what I might like from Grandpa, it was this that I asked for. My mother couldn’t believe her ears. It’s just a symbol of his sense of [...]

A Beautiful Inheritance

When Grandpa passed away last August, I was happy to be getting his cribbage board and outhouse stein (don’t ask). I didn’t give any other type of inheritance another thought. At Christmas, Dad and Mom shared with each of us kids an equal portion of Dad’s inheritance. Although it happened over Skype, there were tears [...]

My Grandpa, My Friend

Egbert Morris Dodde ~ 10/15/1917 – 08/17/2010 A girl is lucky when she has a Grandpa she’s always loved to joke around with like a friend. I’m one of those. My Grandpa Dodde is 92 years old.  I’ve always loved  to play tricks on him and tease him.  He did the same.  I would run [...]