Monthly Archives: June 2022

Marshall Joe Kozlovsky (our only family crime fighter, not counting my grandson-in-law Police officer Joe Stark) kept catching the bad guys, but sometimes, the crooks just kept getting away with it. We can only imagine his frustration. Our two clever … Continue reading →

Three times I’ve started writing a blob about the famous crime fighter in our family, Big Joe Kozlovsky. He was my husband Gene’s great uncle, but he was also the town Marshall in Cedar Rapids, Iowa from 1898 – 1906, … Continue reading →

I’m not greedy. Okay, maybe, a little. I do appreciate that daughter Susy and son-in-law Curt do the lion’s (lioness’s) share of our household’s hard labor, and I know I’ve got Alexa to turn on and off the coffee and … Continue reading →

Poor Paddy Works on the Railway In eighteen hundred and sixty-three, I came across the stormy sea. My dung’ree breeches I put on To work upon the railway, the railway, To work up-on the railway. Oh, poor Paddy come work … Continue reading →