Erwin A. Thompson, answer man
QUESTION
When did automobiles first get a keyed start? Were they keyed in 1919, the year of my current novel? Was it a crank, a push button? I have scoured the internet and while there is info abounding on the classic cars, the keyed start seems of no interest […]
Reverse chronological order….
Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez was born. (June 6, 1599 – August 6, 1660)
My parents Erwin A. Thompson and Ruth E. Thompson were married June 6, 1942 (66th anniversary today).
D-Day June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II
Erwin and Ruth Thompson snuggle up on a past wedding anniversary.
All of these […]
This morning my father wrote to me:
Are any of your new friends good dream interpreters? Last night I dreamed about you. We were walking up ninth street, in Alton [Illinois] at the stopsign where it becomes State. The hill was steep. We were out in the street, not on the sidewalk.
I […]
Girlie pink feather playtime shoes…dreamy.
Daddy’s dream come true was for us to host two of his young friends for an overnight at his home atop the bluffs.
We had the best of times!
While I prepared a chicken pot pie, Pop and N. picked iris and peonies from our garden for the table.
The girls went into the […]
My father unearthed another family treasure recently and we’ve posted it on the Women Writing the West blog. Click here to read They Came to Kansas.
My father, Erwin A. Thompson, became enthralled with a recent discussion on the Women Writing the West listserve concerning the mid-day meal. He discovered and transcribed this story written by […]
My cousin (on my father’s side…Aunt Eleanor’s oldest child of seven children) Phillip Dodds served in the Air Force from November, 1958 to November, 1966 on three bases: Lackland Air Force Base in Texas; Keesler Air Force base in Mississippi; and Eglin Air Force base in Florida.
Phillip did not experience the combat experience or […]
Erwin A. Thompson, author of Thompson Western Series and Folk Treasure
I will share my secret of being able to write when there is no time for writing.
When I am in a boring job that only requires my presence, when I wake up at night and tend to remember all of the dirty deals that people […]
Erwin A. Thompson & Janet Grace Riehl, father-daugther writing team
Click here to read article “The Write Stuff: Writers’ Club Co-Founder speaks to students” by Stephanie Kiszczak in The Telegraph online.
At the AHS Writers Club end of year celebration yesterday the past met the present and moved right on into the future.
Faculty, students, friends, family, and […]
Erwin and Ruth Thompson snuggle up on a past wedding anniversary
Second Love
by Erwin A. Thompson
For the second anniversary of Ruth’s death, May 1, 2006
My first love was like a pansy,
brought too soon from the greenhouse’ sheltering glass.
A late frost took its vicious toll.
That love was never meant to last.
My second love was like […]
Flora, Goddess of Flowers
May first. May Day is a many-splendored thing with more official holiday designations than perhaps any other day of the year. I recall as a child weaving May Day wreaths from spirea branches cut from our bushes and hanging them on our neighbors door. I especially liked hanging my wreath on […]
