by admin | Jan 28, 2026 | Artist, Author, Encore, Recycle/Repurpose
River City Weekly December 20, 2007 Assemblage artist makes new art from castoffs by Rebecca Long Pyper River City Weekly Rebecca Long Pyper interviewed me for River City Weekly, a very nice once-published newspaper of Idaho Falls. She came to my home and went to the...
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...
