War On December 7, 1941, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. If the Japanese can successfully bomb Hawaii, what would keep them from bombing the west coast? The year before, war had taken her husband, Clay from her. Dena Caulter's world continues to crumble around her. Struggling to understand, she asks God why. Carl was in Culver City working on airplanes. He had told her about a new carrier Hughes was going to build...the largest ever. With Carl not here in Palo Alto, how could she continue her education; how could she keep her boys safe? What about the blackouts and the rationings,...
War On December 7, 1941, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. If the Japanese can successfully bomb Hawaii, what would keep them from bombing the west c...
Stanford University is out of reach for most Colorado teens in 1939. The opportunity to gain an education there is beyond nineteen-year-old Dena Caulter's wildest dreams. Yet Uncle Walter, a professor at the prestigious university, as well as the Howard Hughes Aeronautics program offers and Dena is more than willing. Talk of war also breaks up the previously pleasant conversations and laughter that once provided the soundtrack for gatherings between Dena and friends. With opinions voiced, she worries that the boy she secretly crush on-Clay-will be whisked away before she gets the chance to...
Stanford University is out of reach for most Colorado teens in 1939. The opportunity to gain an education there is beyond nineteen-year-old Dena Cault...
Jill has lost her new brown gloves which match her new winter coat. She wants to find them. She is using the alphabet to help her to think through any possible clue that could help her to find her lost gloves, starting with A. Can you help her search for her new brown gloves? Jill works through the alphabet to find her gloves. This is an ABC story to help young readers to develop their phonics and alphabet.
Jill has lost her new brown gloves which match her new winter coat. She wants to find them. She is using the alphabet to help her to think through any...
Two years into the war, Dena Brewster still struggled with Clay's death and war in general. she struggled as a single mother, trying to move on, to make a life for her boys and herself. How can she answer he sons' questions about their daddy when she doesn't understand herself? Her freight business helped her to tolerate the cruelty of war. Victory gardens and saving scrap metal along with making bandages gave the country hope. War bonds and rationing were still a must. Dena was rationed fuel at each base. Hauling freight for the military all over the United States, kept her away from home...
Two years into the war, Dena Brewster still struggled with Clay's death and war in general. she struggled as a single mother, trying to move on, to ma...
I value the heritage in Grandma Law's writings. She wrote what she saw experienced and loved. She lived in the early nineteen hundreds and through World War I and II. She raised five children who are all now retired and enjoying it. Many of her grandchildren are also writing...a tribute to her. I am one of those granddaughters who has picked up the pen and paper. I hope you enjoy Grandma ' s poems, stories and sage quips as much as I have reading each one and compiling her works into a book.
I value the heritage in Grandma Law's writings. She wrote what she saw experienced and loved. She lived in the early nineteen hundreds and through Wor...
1944. War was still going on. Three years and no end could be seen by Dena. She was weary of rationing food, fuel, and clothing. She was tired of men being killed. Every family had a loss, it seemed. Blue stars and flags hung on every home. After three months away from Carl and her boys, Dena enjoyed the chance to sit and watch her sons play. She was expecting another child in early August. So far she felt great, but... 1945. Changes came to Dena's household and to the nation. Both Roosevelt and Mussolini die while Hitler commits suicide. Dena wonders how the world will cope and will this end...
1944. War was still going on. Three years and no end could be seen by Dena. She was weary of rationing food, fuel, and clothing. She was tired of men ...
Since his mother had died, nineteen year old Trip Brewster was on his own. His mother wanted him to stay in Hereford, Texas where he was raised. But Trip had found a certified letter from a lawyer in California in his mother's personal things. It was from his father's family. He had never met his father's family; neither had his mother. When his father was killed in the Viet Nam War, his mother, a proud southern woman chose to raise Trip by herself. Now that he was alone with an inheritance should he stay in Hereford where everything is familiar and comfortable? Or should he go to California,...
Since his mother had died, nineteen year old Trip Brewster was on his own. His mother wanted him to stay in Hereford, Texas where he was raised. But T...
