by admin | Nov 24, 2025 | Artist, Encore
This is my family in about 1970. This is a photo of the haircuts I wrote about on page 30 of my memoir: I Can’t Miss the Encore. My mom’s sisters were professional beautitians. My mom was an artist but not when it came to haircuts and styles. Even our...
by admin | Nov 21, 2025 | Author, Encore
The 6 Stages of “Coming Out,” about the Cass Model of Identity Development My friend, Jan Skousen, sent me Charlie Bird’s book, Expanding the Borders of Zion a Latter-day Saint Perspective on LGBTQ Inclusion, for Christmas in 2022. I’m so glad she did....
by admin | Nov 11, 2025 | Author, Encore
Right to left: Grandpa Alfred and Grandma Ida; children in birth order; Arnold; Isabel; Walter; and the obviously not identical twins, the red-headed freckled faced, Lucile and Lucy A much younger Durtschi Family Grandma Ida and Grandpa Alfred Marry Grandpa Edward and...
by admin | Nov 10, 2025 | Author, Encore
I begin my story back in the late 1800s when my Grandma Ida Aeschbacher Durtschi was born in Eggiwil, Switzerland, to gentle, kind, loving parents, my great grandparents, Christian and Barbara Frey Aeschbacher. Christian Aeschbacher was an adopted boy put to work for...
by admin | Nov 10, 2025 | Adventurer, Encore
I asked someone to take my photo on the top of Mt. Timp before I “hid” it in the crack where no one was and where no one would notice it, EXCEPT for my own brother! Was it Pollyanna I had been searching for all those years, looking into the eyes of people...
