One of the big things I want to mention about traveling in Indiana is my inability to treat my migraines when I am there. The medical treatment of migraines always scared me because of the way nearly all of the medications raise my blood pressure rather dramatically. Many people in my family have strokes when […]
Ghosts
As I drove around Indiana last summer I did not revisit some of the places and feelings I might have thought I would have. It might be because I did not have time. But I may have created new rituals or ways of saying goodbye to people and places I can only remember as existing […]
French Lick
I just had to write about a place with a funny name I have known of for most of my life because of Larry Bird’s celebrity as a basketball star. Everyone always said he was from French Lick, but he was born in West Baden Springs. He is basically the same age as me, just […]
Evidence
I wish my father were alive. He would love to know what I found out about his mom.
Driving…
Friday Got off the train in South Bend. Uber-ed to a hotel. Saturday Picked up my rental car. Drove to my old home town. Attended the class reunion. Here’s a pic of an old friend, Deb, and me. Sunday Next morning… Drove to West Lafayette. There for not quite two days. Loved getting to hang […]
Conscription
My mother’s family, the Brubaker part of it, were Amish. The Amish began in the Eastern Alps of Switzerland where The Swiss Guard conscripted from poor villages. My father’s family, Hill, Hille at that time, arrived in the New World as Hession soldiers.