From my understanding, Grandma Rose was one to thumb her nose at society’s traditional standards early on. She got pregnant & married as a teen, wore pants before it was really “acceptable” for women, smoked, lived with a man she
1978 Diary of Rose Jones – Weeks 9 & 10
Quite a calm & quiet two weeks for Grandma Rose, comparatively so, to her recent weeks. Is it a false calm? We’ll have to keep reading on to see, but here’s hoping! She works so hard… the “urge” to clean?
1978 Diary of Rose Jones – Weeks 7 & 8
I have gone down a rabbit hole this week, admittedly. Upon mention of the death of “Uncle Clarence Jewett,” I had no immediate idea who that was, but the Jewett name stuck with me for some reason, and then I
1978 Diary of Rose Jones – Weeks 5 & 6
All of Ohio and Grandma Rose start to get back to normal in Weeks 5 & 6 in 1978 as warmer weather breaks through… but is it “faux spring?” We’ll have to see but for now, the warming allows her
1977 Diary of Rose Jones – Week 49
Poor Len – already having a surgery this year on his foot, he’s back again for one on his eye this week in 1977. Grandma Rose’s journal mentions which hospital he was actually in this time so I went down