phyllis wheeler Archives

Jane Ruth Elder, my mother, grew up in Tacoma, Washington, during the Depression in the family of a teacher. In […]

This slide rule belonged to my dad, the engineer. Eldred W. Hough, although he was the oldest son, wasn’t named

Thomas Hough, an enterprising young man, was born in 1844 into a lower-class family in Yorkshire, England, and didn’t like

This is about Granny Jennie’s mother Mary Jane, who dominated the Illinois prairie around her in the late 1800s but

My Granny Jennie, born in 1885, hand-painted this pitcher in an art class in college. She had a college degree,

I am sorting stuff from the attic and basement. I ran across my grandfather’s precision surveying instrument. Later on I

When I was a kid, Granny had a punch bowl in the middle of her dining room table. She was

Racism is a topic that my heart keeps returning to. What is it? What causes it? Why is it so

I’ve been up to a lot of things lately, and one of them is a series set in the fictional

I agreed to be part of a blog hop, but I’ve decided to change the rules (because I don’t want

Our son Paul Wheeler, center, spent two weeks in New Caledonia, South Pacific, witnessing to fellow college students (including the

My name is Joseph. I’m a very important man in Egypt now. I am amazed that God has put me