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I'm Barb. I write about change. Those niggling alterations that creep into our lives until we laugh at ourselves. And if you don't think change is funny, pull out your high school year book and give it a look-see. Check out "About" in the header if you want to know more.
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A Growing-Up tale told in clandestine radio broadcasts.
BK Froman (a.k.a. Kris Knorr)
Funny, Blunt WWII Tale of Owning the Past
Change: The Knothole of Normal
A Sparkling Comic Disregard for Change
The Two Pan Series: See BOOKS in header
Two Pan 2
You Know You Want To Read This
Another Great Group
Tag Archives: Pioneer Friday
The Last Days of School Never Change
I know…I know… It’s been a month since I’ve shown up here. Someday I’ll tell you of my secret carousing, but until National Enquirer finds out and blows my cover, I’ll just keep it hush-hush and instead gust here about … Continue reading
Posted in Change, Pioneer Friday in Two Pan
Tagged 1870, Arithmetic, bonnet, Change, Gold, last days of school, Oregon, Pioneer Friday, school marm
51 Comments
Lace Up Your Corsets…Here Come the Drunks
No job opportunities exist for Violet Spinrad in 1870—that’s about to change. (We hate change.) I didn’t know what to do, but I needed money. I’d heard Silky Sue, had built a house next to her saloon. I left 14-year-old, … Continue reading
Posted in A Laugh, Change, Pioneer Friday in Two Pan, Satire
Tagged Change, Corsets, Pioneer Friday, Saloon, Tight Lacing, Undergarments of 1870, Whalebone
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Before Morning Breaks: Floozys on Main Street
January 6, 1871 Honorary Editor: Dangling Participle Lichen Last’s week’s horse race down Main Street by gauzily clad ladies of negotiable virtue set off a roaring firestorm.Prairie mesdames Patricia Woolsey and Alice Hopkins began a campaign to remove the “underbelly … Continue reading
Posted in A Laugh, Humor, Pioneer Friday in Two Pan
Tagged brothel, Change, eastern Oregon, Humor, Oregon Trail, Pioneer Friday, Saloon, Settlers, shotgun 1800s
53 Comments
New Year’s at the Sporting Club
December 30, 1871 Honorary Editor: Words Swiderski The catastrophe began with the piano in the Salt Lick Saloon. Being the only musical instrument in the valley, folks came from miles around to listen. Silky Sue, proprietor, waved her ostrich fan … Continue reading
Posted in A Laugh, Pioneer Friday in Two Pan
Tagged horse race, New Years, piano, Pioneer Friday, Pioneers, Saloon, San Franciso, Settlers, sporting club
35 Comments
Threshing Manure
Fridays Brings Changes in Two Pan…. When one of the Woolsey children came banging on our door, Bricker was out seining for gold, as usual. The boy had been sent by his papa asking for Bricker’s help getting in his … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Pioneer Friday in Two Pan, Satire
Tagged flour, grain, horse, manure, mill, Pioneer, Pioneer Friday, Settler, threshing, tobacco, Wheat
34 Comments
Before Morning Breaks 