winter – Judith Pettersen

My Sixties Movement

In the 1960’s, long before our 6-child family gained its 7th member, my siblings and I spent our time playing, plotting, and occasionally trying to kill each other. Since our HBM&S local mining company sponsored dance classes for a low fee, ballet lessons became the first tool in my parent’s desperate game of Survivor: Too Many Kids—too Little Time. AtContinue reading “My Sixties Movement”

The Swedish

We had a hot tub in the house we moved from in 2005. It fit eight people and we used it regularly as a family. When winter rolled around, my husband Clarence liked to take what he called, ‘a Swedish.’ By this he meant that he was going to run naked around our back yard.Continue reading “The Swedish”