by Barbara Zarzosa | May 10, 2017 | Telling our stories
When I was a little girl growing up in the hills of Western Pennsylvania, the world around us was a lot different from what it is today. Read the rest of the story here.
by Barbara Zarzosa | Apr 26, 2017 | Telling our stories
Tour buses, lines of tourists, one trinket shop after another. I was tired of it all! At the age of 23, I had signed up for this whirlwind tour because of the great opportunity to visit the Holy Land accompanied by Ron, our minister and friend, who had been here many...
by Barbara Zarzosa | Apr 5, 2017 | Telling our stories
I was sure when The Fifties would come to an end. They would end on December 31, 1959, at the stroke of midnight. I was a young boy of eleven at that moment, and my twin brother Jim and I were helping my Mom baby-sit for my sister Betty, who lived across tiny Agate...
by Barbara Zarzosa | Apr 3, 2017 | Telling our stories, Video
NORTH BAY, Ontario — The tiny log house alongside the Trans-Canada Highway is easy to miss among the strip malls, fast-food outlets and car dealers. But 83 years ago, it was the eye of a publicity maelstrom because of a one-in-a-billion event: the birth of five...
by Barbara Zarzosa | Mar 29, 2017 | Telling our stories
Myrna Dey, grapples with her husband’s descent into dementia, and builds a new reality for both of them. Read her story here.
by Barbara Zarzosa | Mar 15, 2017 | Show and Tell, Telling our stories
I remember opening up his big wooden wardrobe and burying my nose into his handkerchiefs. His clothes always had a pleasant, sweet, and mystical smell – not just his clothes, his closets, his bed; his entire room was infused with that intoxicating smell. Read...
