Paula Nicewanger’s Story Archive

Kurt Vonnegut’s Boyhood Home the 2017 Decorators’ Show House

April 27, 2017 | by Paula Nicewanger

INDIANAPOLIS — The 56th annual St. Margaret’s Hospital Guild Decorators’ Show House and Gardens will begin Sat., April 29 through Mother’s Day, May 14. Local interior designers, landscape designers, and their support teams donate hundreds of hours, as do the members of St. Margaret’s Hospital Guild, to refurbish an area … Read More

Traveling with Paula, Mount Rushmore, SD

April 6, 2017 | by Paula Nicewanger

In this past February’s article, I told you my sister Gail and I take a trip together, just the two of us, every five or six years. She lives in Oakland, California and we only get to see each other a couple of times a year during hurried family events. … Read More

Go to Your High School Reunion!

March 30, 2017 | by Paula Nicewanger

My 50th High School Reunion from Tech High School is this year (Class of ‘67) and I’m on the reunion committee. Our committee is small so decision making has been easy — the more people, the more time spent making choices. Tech in the 60s was enormous — 5,400 students … Read More

Traveling with Paula: Custer State Park, SD

February 2, 2017 | by Paula Nicewanger

In this past December’s article, I told you my sister Gail and I take a trip together, just the two of us, every five or six years. She lives in Oakland, California and we only get to see each other a couple of times a year during hurried family events. … Read More

The Christmas Letter

December 22, 2016 | by Paula Nicewanger

For the last 25 years or so, I have created that under-appreciated, dreaded Christmas letter! You know the one, all about the cat’s surgery, your root canal that went terribly wrong, and the vacation to some beach. I never meant to do this, but after my daughter went off to … Read More