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...
by admin | Nov 10, 2025 | Author, Encore
Image #1, from left to right, shows two books of equal size; image #2 shows the title of each book; image 3 shows the book on the left, The Book of Mormaon pages are completely dry; image #4 The Book of Mormon on the left could be thumbed through because it was dry...
by admin | Nov 3, 2025 | Author, Encore
Grandma and Lena in their Swiss dress. Grandma is on the right. She’s about 16 years old so, Lena would be 17. Grandma Ida Aeschbacher Durtschi, I begin my story back in the late 1800s when my Grandma Ida Aeschbacher Durtschi was born in Eggiwil, Switzerland,...
by admin | Nov 3, 2025 | Author, Encore
Edward Durtschi’s amazing home in Wimmis, Switzerland where Grandpa Alfred lived as a boy Grandpa Alfred Durtschi About 45 Kilometers away from my Grandma Ida, in Wimmis, Switzerland, lived my Great Grandpa Edward and Grandma Rosina Durtschi and their nine...
by admin | Oct 31, 2025 | Author, Encore
My Durtschi Family and My Second Home in Teton Valley, Idaho My second home was in Driggs, Idaho, in Teton Valley. The Tetons are MY mountains. My Durtschi cousins my mom’s family, are MY special cousins. When I was little and wasn’t very big, my Durtschi cousins and...
by admin | Oct 30, 2025 | Author, Encore
In chapter 1 of I Can’t Miss the Encore (Encore), Becoming One with the Forest, on page 15, I wrote about how I relate to Seven of Nine. The Borg, a terrifying robotic species, was introduced in the Star Trek: Voyager series, the year-long Borg season. The Borg...
