Suzanne Lay's Blog

The Perry Area Historical Society founder sent out the word she wanted antique toys for display in a Christmas event. After I recovered from the horror of dicovering my toys were antiques and dealing with ugly ramifications about my mortality, the following items were what I found to take Little Miss Seamstress Set. This was […]

This is an official tooth grinding explanation of the last two posts that I didn’t upload right. They read fine on the screen but the update didn’t happen. I guess I should be grateful to my friends for not writing, ”this sucks” or some other pithy phrase in the comments. On the Final Class post, […]

I was born in December and the trappings of commercial Christmas have always seemed to be part of my birthday. I am a Sagittarius and Jesus is a Capricorn so this is not claim on my part to divine knowledge. My BFF Shelley was born on Halloween in Frankfort Germany and I was born December […]

As some of you know I am working on a book about life in education.It has had several titles; You can lead of Hort-to-Culture but you can’t make her think, Ignorance was my Business etc. I am down to the fourth draft, lumbering toward the glossary and a section of “quick picks” containing choice lists […]

We are back…. Once again we amazed a Hotel staff.We are old friends that don’t know each other, we are close but live all over the world;we are a vagabond group of children grown old that are called Service Brats. We appear like magic or locusts every few years for a Lajes High School reunion. […]

This goes out to all my pet loving friends. For those of you from New Orleans that are waiting for a post…its coming, I am waiting for some pictures from Jim’s camera. And those of you who are waiting for the San Diego pictures, I am trying to figure out how to get “What does […]

It’s that time again in Middle Georgia, not to be confused with Middle Earth maybe. It’s the fall ritual of Mossy Creek The change for me this year is that I am in a service club. That’s a group of women who do service for the community. We are have a swell Indian name, Sogadera […]

March 1943 the 86th and its three squadrons, the 309th, 310th, and 312th Bombardment Squadrons (Light) embarked from Staten Island 29 April and sailed to Algeria, arriving at Mers El Khebir, a former French naval base at Oran, in May. Flying operations began 15 May from Médiouna Airfield, near Casablanca, French Morocco. The 86th and […]

The Newletter reads: Please show your support to the Veterans of the 86th FBG. Represent them at this year’s reunion in Fort Walton Beach, FL. We will not be able to continue these reunions of the 86th Fighter -Bomber Group Association without family and friend support. We are losing our precious 86th Veterans, and others […]

Taken by cherished friend and a New Yorker Russ Lapso In answer to the question “where were you on 9-11, I was at Wesleyan College for women in Macon Georgia. It is a surreal place for me because it was where I spent my first yearin college. As aservicebrat only recently transplanted from Europe Wesleyanwas […]