March, Women’s History Month
A Salute to Aunt Hazel and the BEEPS I am writing about my dad’s family, the Palmers, from Sedalia, Missouri, and am amazed at the treasures I’ve found among the memorabilia I inherited. I’m sifting through stacks of articles, journals, newspaper articles, photos and memoirs dating from 1888-2002, a remarkable journey of discovery which I…
Celebrating George Washington’s 291st Birthday
On President’s Day, February 20, I attended the 149th Annual Meeting of the Washington Association of New Jersey, at the Madison Hotel in Morristown. I’ve been a member of this organization since I moved to New Jersey in 2014. At the luncheon, I met a friendly group of Hessians who came to hear the guest…
HAPPY PRESIDENTS DAY!
Here’s some quotes from two of my favorite presidents. Lincoln “Most folks are as happy as they make up their mind to be.” “Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.” “All rising to a great place is by a winding stair.” “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed…
Travels with Bernie, Circle of Life
Bernie and I were in Ephesus, Turkey, with Jim and Sandi, when our guide said, “Your Christ is under your feet!” We looked down and discovered a secret code, embedded in the wide, gray paving stones beneath our feet. I imagined that the apostle Paul—who preached on the steps of the amphitheater—walked around it…
The Secret of a Partridge in a Pear Tree
When I bought twelve hand-painted bulb shaped ornaments in a thrift shop for $ 1.00 I knew I’d found a treasure. The first orb showed a hand painted partridge sitting in a pear tree. The next ornament displayed two turtle doves. The rest followed, each one singing out its merriment to the last of the…
What’s in a Hat?
I was rearranging my closet shelves last week, making way for my winter sweaters when I spied Bernie’s Pan Am white hat in a plastic bag, on the top shelf. I used a broom handle to gently coax the hat down—my reminder of our Halcyon Days of Yore. I buffed the black brim with oil,…
Just in Time
by Sarajane Giere I’d been using the Greek Myths as part of my 6th grade reading program and was drawn to the intriguing country where these myths originated. In 1992, I asked my husband, Bernie and our long-time travel buddies, Sandi and Jim Knoch, if our next trip should be Greece. They loved the idea,…
A Quip Remembered
While working on a memoir about my grandparents, John and Nannie Palmer, who married in 189I, I found a quip I’d saved by Bill Moyers which seems apropos. “The past is no row of bare facts waiting to be memorized by school children. Nor does it stand in our back yard like an old picket…
Mission Accomplished in Germany
Even though Bernie flew many Pan Am flights to Germany, the kids and I had never gone along as a family. It was June of 1987, and we thought it was about time to take our kids to meet their European relatives, the Giere’s, of Bremen, Germany. Bernie’s dad, Rudy, said he’d be delighted to…
NIGHT MISSION ON THE HO CHI MINH TRAIL
By: Mark Berent In honor of all the pilots who’ve courted danger while flying for our country in past wars, I’m sharing with you this essay from the desk of my cousin Mark Berent, author and distinguished fighter pilot who flew over 1,000 combat hours during the Korean and Vietnam wars. Bernie wrote me about…
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