More Than the Indy 500 Indianapolis is so much more than the “Indy 500.” After a number of visits with family there, I’m even more impressed with its many attractions for visitors as well as residents. Home to the Colts…
Category: Nora’s Corner
Sophie’s Little Free Library
Government Girl (Conclusion)
As my sojourn in Washington, D.C., progressed and I began to feel like a real resident, I discovered new pleasures like the Watergate Inn. It stood where the Kennedy Center is now. It became one of my favorite places to…
Government Girl (Continued)
In 1948 when I moved from Springfield, Missouri, to Washington, D.C., “Watergate” referred to a series of summer concerts by the National Symphony on a barge anchored in the Potomac, facing a bank of steps leading up to the Lincoln…
Government Girl, 1948
As the B&O Pullman porter gave me a hand down at Union Station, straight ahead and rising above the trees was the U.S. Capitol dome. My legs grew weak. This was heady stuff for a 22-year-old from Springfield, Missouri. I’d…
Swan Song
The pond is almost at the far end of our retirement community. A small dock enables an occasional fisherman to cast a line into the still water. He or she may actually bring in a bass big enough to keep,…
Shall We Dance?
Whenever I remember Brebner Walker, I see a tall, thin figure in white tails and a sparkling white top hat, tap, tapping across the dance hall floor at Half-A-Hill and surrounded by an appreciative crowd during the floor show. Sometimes…
Rabbits, Chicks and New White Shoes
Overcoming Acrophobia
The fear began on a steep hillside in the Ozarks when I was a child. My mother was trying to turn our 1933 Pontiac around on a narrow dirt road. Just on the left side of us was a stone…
All Hallows Eve
When graduates of Princeton see the color combination of orange and black, they may be reminded of the Princeton Tigers; other fans (especially Marylanders) instantly visualize the Orioles. But I always associate orange and black with Halloween, one of my…