Paula Nicewanger’s Story Archive

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

Traveling with Paula: Part 3, Devils Tower

December 1, 2016 | by Paula Nicewanger

This past October, 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. This year … Read More

Cooking Thanksgiving Dinner

November 24, 2016 | by Paula Nicewanger

I cooked my first Thanksgiving dinner when I was 15 years old. My mother had contracted hepatitis the January before and had such a bad case she was hospitalized twice that year, 6 weeks the first time and then 7 weeks in August. She was so weak she couldn’t get … Read More