Posts by JAS

Dear Mermaid O, As you slide on your black lipstick and don your witch hat for Halloween 2023, I remember my Halloween experiences during the 1950s and 60s. The Halloween festivities of my youth were vastly different from the spooky celebrations you enjoy today. Finding the perfect costume was not as convenient as it is READ MORE

On this Memorial Day, I’m honoring a real hero, my Godfather, and greatest uncle any kid could have, James Foster Morgan. Uncle Jim, married to my Aunt Helen Ade, from Otterbein, IN, enlisted in the Army during WW II and was a glider trooper in the glider infantry of Company C19th of the 17th Airborne. READ MORE

Dear Mermaid O, October 3, 1984, started out as any normal work day for Poppa and me.  He was working as Deputy Director for the Indiana Division of Agriculture, and I was Editor of the Hoosier Farmer at Farm Bureau.  The only thing different today was that any day now, I was going to have READ MORE

Dear Mermaid O,   Today, on the eve (8/4/22) of the vote on SB1 in the Indiana General Assembly, I want to talk to you about one of the most critical decisions made by our government that could affect you as a woman. It certainly impacted my life in 1980.  On June 24, 2022, the READ MORE

Dear Mermaid O, What was I doing on the day you were born? Well, that day was an emotional roller-coaster day for me.  Three big events happened in 24 hours that would change those I love and me forever.  Earlier that week, I was finishing work with a week-long series of board meetings when I READ MORE

Title IX…”No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any educational program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.” Dear Mermaid O, How did I learn to knit? On this day, marking the 50th anniversary of READ MORE