Susan Lee Ward

Like many of us, I had ancestors who traveled on the Santa Fe Trail. In my case, it was my great-great-grandparents, Captain Isaac Bowen and his wife, Catherine “Katie” Cary Bowen. Their first trip on …

Military Spouses “Your direct influence on your spouse’s career may not be great, but your influence on his morale is. Your attitude toward his job can greatly influence how well he does it, as well …

Sleepy Juice Using “sleepy juice” has often saved a mother much trouble. Remember Dimetapp (https://www.drugs.com/cdi/brompheniramine-and-pseudoephedrine-liquid.html), which was used to treat nose stuffiness and allergies? I confess that I used this when my children were small …

“For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.” Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë Love letters are not just about “How …

Absquatulate is a deeply silly word that means to make off with something or someone. Why say a that a man ran off with your possessions when it’s much more fun to say that he absquatulated with …

The following is the story about how Col. William (Willie) Holman Cary Bowen, once a “grasshopper clerk,” became an Army officer. It’s an excerpt from an interview in 1927, when Willie was 75. He died …

My childhood name was Willie Bowen and I was born “into the army” at Old Fort Union, New Mexico Territory, on January 7, 1852. I had the distinction of being the first child born at …

According to Katie Bowen, Dennis Bowen had “the music.” I’m not exactly sure what she meant, but she wrote to her mother that Dennis was very much like his younger brother, Isaac. Dennis was Isaac’s …