People Who were Kind to Me
As Guinever likes to tease me, I am a linerar thinker so I like to order these sort of memories chronological for the most part. I do jump around a little bit. But on the topic of who has been kind to me. I feel I must begin early because the list is so long. As a little boy, under 6, and until I was old enough to fend for myself, my mother had a babysitter who looked after us while she and my dad taught school. The two women were Mary Walker and Minetta Huber. Mary's husband was Roscoe. He was a janitor at the high school where my dad taught. He was a very kind man as was Mary a kind grandmother type. They had one son, Neil of whom they were very proud as he was an excellent student at the top of his class. These women made two things that have persisted in my life as favorite deserts. THe first is red velvet cake which she made with multiple layers for birthdays. Mary made this and it was heavenly. Minetta made a desert called "Cherry Delight". It was wonderful to...
