Category Archives: Comanche

The place where I grew up

Cooking things in a quandary: Chicken portuguesa

Posted on January 27, 2019 by Marchbanks

I made a famous secret recipe, but the reason for the secret might have disappeared. So should I publish how to make Chicken portuguesa? Continue reading →

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Movie Night

Posted on January 29, 2017 by Marchbanks

We sat down to watch a cache of home movies this weekend at The Old Gray House, and we got to see ALL THE THINGS! Continue reading →

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I found another one

Posted on March 6, 2010 by Marchbanks

Another air-check tape from KCOM, is what! Continue reading →

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My father, 1943

Posted on May 8, 2009 by Marchbanks

My father as an aviation cadet, circa 1943. Continue reading →

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Family Biographies: #2

Posted on October 22, 2007 by Marchbanks

The next biography is my father’s father’s father.  (Sounds like the Moody Blues, doesn’t it?) Continue reading →

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Family Biographies: #1

Posted on October 19, 2007 by Marchbanks

Recently I had to write several biographical sketches of family members. Continue reading →

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I have a hemstitcher

Posted on March 17, 2007 by Marchbanks

L made the sensible suggestion that it might have originally belonged to my great-grandmother. Continue reading →

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I just ranted at my mother

Posted on July 15, 2006 by Marchbanks

That article will still suffer, because it won’t have her knowledge and experience behind it. Continue reading →

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Asperges me, domine, and I’ll slam the door on you

Posted on April 25, 2006 by Marchbanks

The senior warden was so startled that he slammed the door, which then stuck.  Again. Continue reading →

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Since the last time

Posted on January 28, 2006 by Marchbanks

In the thirty years I’ve been gone, everyone went and got old on me. Continue reading →

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