Month
January 1999
2 entries
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Friday, January 1, 1999 · Don Krumpos
After my mom died, after high school ended, after the first rude awakening
After my mom died, after high school ended, after the first rude awakening of adulthood, I filled the void with toys. Literally — Star Wars toys. I bought back my childhood with credit cards I should never have had. Shelves…
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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…