Ok, so she's 96 years old. Without begrudging that fact, this gives her lots of interesting memories to share.
(The first column)
The Fourth of July (July 4, 1988)
Murphy's Law and my Stuff (September 12, 1988)
C Club (November 10, 1988)
The Gingerbread House (December 4, 1988)
1989
Wonder (February 15, 1989)
Spring is Here! (April 4, 1989)
Age 75: A Memoir? (April 9, 1989)
What is Age?(October 1, 1989)
1990
Remembering Old Cars! (July 4, 1990)
1991
The Stars Too? (July 29, 1991)
De-junking (September 30, 1991)
World War II (December 5, 1991)
1992
Kids and Parents: Getting Acquainted? (April 9, 1992)
1993
Remembering Grand Junction's Library (April 1, 1993)
The Sixties (June 29, 1993)
Raggedy Ann and Baby Turkeys (August 31, 1993)
Reverse Nostalgia: Dreams (Novemer 16, 1993)
Writing a Letter (December 14, 1993)
1994
Some Years are More Memorable Than Others (January 4, 1994)
A History of the Movies (for Henrietta) (April 12, 1994)
Thoughts on Turning Eighty (April 19, 1994)
The Denver Zephyr (June 21, 1994)
Thanksgiving (November 22, 1994)
1995
Anniversary (January 3, 1995)
The Thirties (February 14, 1995)
Granduation! (June 6, 1995)
The Fourth of July! (July 4, 1995)
Remembering World War II (July 11, 1995)
1996
On Memory...and How it Works? (April 9, 1996)
And Then Again at Eighty-Two (April 23, 1996)
Ancesters...and History (August 30, 1996)
Henrietta's Itinerant Son (July 16, 1996)
1997
Spring (April 2, 1997)
To My Son--and his age-mates--Turning 50 (April 25, 1997)
John F. Kennedy at 80 (June 13, 1997)
1998
Spring Sort of Springs (March 6, 1998)
In Your Eighties in the Nineties (April 24, 1998)
From Space in the Cherrelyn Horsecar to Space(May 11, 1992 ("Colorado"), reprinted May 11, 1998)
Updating the Library(November 27, 1998)
Grinching at Christmas (December 18, 1998)
Happy Holidays! (December 25, 1998)
1999
Happy New Year! (January 1, 1999)
UH-ooooooo-GUH!! (January 22, 1999)
A Sense of Wonder (February 12, 1999)
Choosing Your Doctor (March 26, 1999, after September 14, 1993)
Ode (well, Column) to Spring (April 16, 1999)
At 85: Traveling in my Easy Chair(April 23, 1999)
Afternoon Tea(October 1, 1999)
On Memory(October 8, 1999)
Food and football -- and Thanksgiving! (November 19, 1999)
Toys and the Imagination (December 10, 1999)
On the Millennium (December 17, 1999)
Merry Christmas, 1999!(December 24, 1999)
2000
Changes . . . (March 10, 2000)
About Loss...(March 24, 2000)
Being over 65, er, 85 . . .(April 21, 2000)
About the Christmas Tree(December 22, 2000)
2001
We get mail!(January 5, 2001)
Yet Another One!(January 19, 2001)
A Cake With Not More Than 2 Candles and no Raisins
(April 20, 2001)
Patriotism in the Twenty-first Century
(July 6, 2001)
Remembering the Twentieth Century
(August 17, 2001)
The Columns of Wisdom Past
(August 24, 2001)
About Thanksgiving
(November 16, 2001)
The Annual Yuletide Celebration
(December 14, 2001)
Christmas, 2001
(December 21, 2001)
2002
Thanks for the Mail
(January 4, 2002)
Remembering the ERA
(February 1, 2002)
Blue January
(February 8, 2002)
Patriotism and the Flag
(February 15, 2002)
Spring, Sports, and Gifted Children
(April 5, 2002)
Eighty-eight!?
(April 19, 2002)
Gene Amole and Denver
(May 24, 2002)
Crossing the Rockies
(September 20, 2002)
The Grinch, Toys, and Christmas
(December 13, 2002)
2003
Remembering History
(February 21, 2003)
It's Spring!
(March 21, 2003)
Another year . . .
(April 18, 2003)
The Fourth of July, 2003
(July 4, 2003)
2004
We Get Letters!
(January 2, 2004)
A Sense of Wonder
(April 16, 2004)
Ninety Years Young
(April 23, 2004)
Rocky Mountain Tunnels
(July 9, 2004)
2005
A Sense of Wonder
(January 14, 2005)
Car:Sold; Memories:Kept
(April 8, 2005)
Forty Years of the Class of '65
(September 2, 2005)
The Grand Mesa
(September 2, 2005)
Thanksgiving, 2005
(November 18, 2005)
Christmas Memories
(December 23, 2005)
2006
Happy New Year, 2006
(January 6, 2006)
Spring Springs--Sort of
(April 7, 2006)
Ninety-boomers
(April 21, 2006)
Tunnels in Colorado
(May 5, 2006)
Thanks for the Memory
(June 23, 2006)
Across Generations
(September 15, 2006)
On Getting Older
(October 20, 2006)
The Birth of Vail
(December 1, 2006)
The Eyes of Christmas
(December 7, 2006)
Santa and the Toys
(December 22, 2006)
2007
Henrietta's Century
(May 4, 2007)
A Sense of Wonder
(June 29, 2007)
The First Grade, 1920
(September 7, 2007)
Driving to Denver
(November 3, 2007)
Snakes!
(November 16, 2007)
Merry Christmas 2007!
(December 14, 2007)
2008
Henrietta, the Radio Personality
(February 8, 2008)
A Weekend on the X Lazy F Ranch
(April 11, 2008)
Just yesterday: My First Day in College
(May 16, 2008)
The Computers in My Life
(July 4, 2008)
Grand Junction Does Change
(August 15, 2008)
The Great Depression Reflected (on)
(November 7, 2008)
2009
Childhood in Denver
(January 2, 2009)
Thinking About Friday the 13th
(March 13, 2009)
Steam Engines
(April 10, 2009)
The 95th Birthday!
(April 24, 2009)
Henrietta and Cars
(July 3, 2009)
Autumn in Colorado
(October 9, 2009)
Remebering Things
(October 24, 2009)
Generations
(November 20, 2009)
Santa's Tools
(December 18, 2009)
2010
She's 96 Years Old!
(April 23, 2010)
Patriotic Holidays
(July 2, 2010)
Autumn in Colorado
(September 24, 2010)
A Sense of Wonder
(October 8, 2010)
The Final Column - Learning to Write
(November 5, 2010)
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