pollyanna's world

As kids, my sister and I ate cereal every morning for breakfast. We loved cereal. Mom would allow us to select our own cereal. For many year...

As the pandemic hit in 2020, many of us baby boomers were shocked we were considered "elderly." No, we weren't elderly; we wer...

  When I was almost 24, we moved to Portland. We rented a small two-bedroom house that sat on a corner. The property sort of blended into th...

Recently Missy reminded me of how Nellie and the kids ate dinner with their dad. Bobby worked nights while Nellie tended to the family or wo...

That first spring after we moved into our little place in SE Portland, I decided we needed to meet the neighbors. We invited the families ar...