I’ve been channeling my inner “Grandma Rose” this past month and preparing for spring gardening by turning my sun room into a greenhouse/growing station. Jon had a brief Army mission down to Virginia this past fall, and he visited Mount
1978 Diary of Rose Jones – Weeks 11 & 12
From my understanding, Grandma Rose was one to thumb her nose at society’s traditional standards early on. She got pregnant & married as a teen, wore pants before it was really “acceptable” for women, smoked, lived with a man she
1978 Diary of Rose Jones – Weeks 5 & 6
All of Ohio and Grandma Rose start to get back to normal in Weeks 5 & 6 in 1978 as warmer weather breaks through… but is it “faux spring?” We’ll have to see but for now, the warming allows her
1978 Diary of Rose Jones – Weeks 1 & 2
Welcome back to a new year with my Grandma Rose Jones Stewart Hochmuth! Thank you to my cousins Kim and Robin for sending me her journal for 1978 to continue exploring grandma’s journey. I was 4 years old in 1978,
1977 Diary of Rose Jones – Week 52
We are at the end of living life in 1977 with Grandma Rose through her day book/journal. What a year it has been learning more about her and her daily life. I mean, as a kid, I knew her, of