Author: Nancy Olney
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Christmas Past
Most of us have just ‘signed off’ on another Christmas and are packing away the decorations and ornaments and dragging the tree to the curb. We were late with the tree and decorations this year, so we will leave them in a bit longer. Can’t wait too long, as a lady at church today said…
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What’s On My Mind (the part I have left)
DUES ARE DUEAre you an active member;The kind that would be missed;Or are you just contentedThat your name is on the list?Do you attend the meetingsAnd mingle with the flock;Or do you stay at homeAnd criticize and knock?Do you take an active partTo help the work along;Or are you satisfied to beThe kind that just…
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What Things Have Changed?
Every time I go to Williston and pass by Friendly’s restaurant, I remember my days in X-Ray school when we would collect our paychecks (second year students were paid $80/month plus call pay, usually amounted to about $160) and we would head out for Friendly’s for a cheeseburger deluxe and milkshake. The burger used bread…
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Birds of a Feather
Friday night (February 1, 2019) we lost a good friend and the area lost a knowledgeable, passionate historian in Ken Barber. Ken was a VAE member and has contributed to Wheel Tracks many times. If you didn’t know him, I wouldn’t be surprised. He didn’t inject himself in the running of the operation, not to…
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Ramblings of a ‘Mature Lady’
As I ‘mature’ it seems that I become more aware or should say irritated with things happening around me, i.e. the idea that school should start an hour or more later in the mornings, to allow our children to “get more rest”, and thus they will certainly do much better in school. Poppy cot!! What…
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A Page from “The Willy Chronicles”
As I was rummaging among our winter coats the other day looking for something to wear to run errands, I was thinking how winter clothing has changed over the years. When I was young, a hundred years ago, I remember pea coats, knit mittens and galoshes. Gael still has a coat from the ’50’s that…
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A Page from “The Willy Chronicles”
‘Freedom’s just another word for nothin’ left to lose…..’ No, this article isn’t about who sang this song. If you know it was Janis Joplin you are probably about the same age as me and you would know that I just turned 70. This isn’t bad, but it is when I’m sure that I don’t…
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Happy New Year – 2018
As the time is getting close, I will first wish one and all a Happy New Year. It is a bit hard to believe it will be 2018 (if you are reading this, it is 2018!) It seems like yesterday that we were all trying to decide how to say the years in the 2000s,…
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Walk a Mile in My Shoes / Everyone has a Story
Having worked in medicine for 50 years, I have had many opportunities to listen to patient’s stories concerning their health, family, friends, the town, the State and the Federal government. Some have a lot of incite and some not so much, but we listen and many times I am so taken back by what I…
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Special Days
By the time this goes to print, Mother’s Day will have passed and Memorial Day and Father’s Day will be on the horizon. Let me say, before I really get going, that I probably have written about the subject before and hopefully you are a bit like me and can’t remember and to those who…
