There’s always something going on at Junior’s place. With five children, an absent mother, and the friends that come to drink and smoke,...

I said earlier that I’ve put my foot in my mouth a thousand times in my day, usually when I should have known better. My first job at the...

In the years before John arrives, we take a trip to Princeton, New Jersey, to visit one of my mother’s few remaining friends. She and her...

I was driving the Green Bomber, my first car, passed on to me by my parents. Despite the fact the green Plymouth Satellite was wide and...

Every Valentine’s Day, we wake up and come to the kitchen to find four identical red, heart-shaped boxes of chocolate on the round table....

There’s a little house at the bottom of Woodrow Place where my friends Mary and Kate once lived just at the border of the large field...

Home has never felt so far away. I am hiding in an outhouse with the door locked, behind and slightly uphill from the mean, low-slung...

One summer morning, my mother tells me we'd be visiting a friend for lunch. She'd made some new friends since the divorce, and some of...

One day, Jake reveals that he has a friend named Ally who lives at the end of 80th Street who has horses and boards a pony. The pony is...

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...

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...

When Earl and Dolly Huntington sell their house, which sits behind Junior’s property, he is concerned about the Hispanic family that...

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...

My grandfather, D.G. Pfoutz, is the second man standing from the right in this photo. Someone has helpfully pointed him out with an...

Our immediate neighbors to the left are Junior, his wife Jeannie and their five children. There are usually at least two dead cars on...

Guy's half-sister Emily and her brother John. Among other pieces of her jewelry, Grandmother gives me a black and white enameled gold...

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...

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...

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,...

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...