Eunice Boeve

Boys of Baby Lager Camp playing chess, Photo by Ralph Morse, Life Magazine, posted 2/3/12

Hypnosis, once thought to be a sham, can be a vaulable tool to improve our lives. Posted Jan 2, 2012

Title: Atheists and Christmas ....... The painting of Jesus by Akiane Kramark age 8 posted Nov 30, 2011

Title: Autograph Books........Ron (my hus) then called Ronnie 8th grade 1945-46 - posted Nov 7, 2011

Title: Hobo Nickels........ carved by "Bo" George Washington Hughes - posted Oct. 2, 2011

The Buffalo Nickel

Title: Chief Standing Bear Posted 9/6/11

Title: Animal Meteorologists ........ Muffin age 6 posted 8/12/11

Title: The Sleep That is not a Sleep... Rip Van Winkle posted 7-4-11

Title: The Surviving/ Grieving Child - posted May 26, 2011

Title: A Native American Tale - posted April 26, 2011

Title: Embalming Bottles House - posted Mar. 29, 2011

Title: Memoirs and the "Now"in our lives - posted 2/21/11

Title: Even a Sparrow - My son, Ronnie, and the sparrow circa 1975 (note the dirt on Ronnie's chin) posted 1/27/11

Title: Women's suffrage Susanna M. Salter, age 27 Courtesy of the Kansas State Historical Society, posted 12/28/10

Title: Home on the Range - Brewster Higley's Cabin courtesy of the Kansas Sampler Foundation posted 10/7/10

Title: My sister's Dog - "Sadie" Posted 7/22/2010

Title: Comanche posted 6/28/10

Title: Moses Stocking - Mari Sandoz, 1896-1966 Library of Congress photo, posted 5/14/10

Title: Providence Spring, posted April 18, 2010

Title: Mary Fields - photo courtesy Wedsworth Library, Cascade, MT posted Mar. 17, 2010

Title: The Orphan Trains - posted Feb. 21, 2010

Title: A Nez Perce Heroine -Lewis and Clark: Posted Jan. 27, 2009

Title: Our Immigrant Ancestors - The SS Zaandam: Posted Dec. 29, 2009

Title: The Lowly Pencil - Some pencil pushers: Bro Larry (circled) & class 1946-47, Libby, Mt : posted Dec 7, 2009

Title: The Old Time Cowboy - Me with my Cowboy Daddy Posted Nov. 14, 2009

Title: Did you know? - A Hubble photo of the stars in the universe posted Oct 14, 2009

Title: The Year Without a Summer - Mary Shelley painting by Rothwell 1800-1868 Posted Sept 30, 2009

Title: Early Day Hunting Stories - posted Aug 28, 2009 - Buffaloed by Fairlee Winfield

Title: The Legend of Bad Medicine ( Mountain in the background) July 29, 2009 post

Title: Ally and the Wolves - My granddaughter, Ally, and me with a wolf pup Ally and the Wolves, July 10 , 2009 post

Title: Old Glory The Number Thirteen - July 2 post

Title: Geo Caching - Daughters Kandy and Kathy and son-in-law, Tom, on a geo cache hunt Posted June 23 post

Title: The Free Enterprise Radon Health Mine - Location Boulder, MT May 29, 2009 post

Title: Kathleen Sebelius - Ron and I with Kansas Governor Sebelius, now Health and Human Services Secretary May 12, 2009 post

Title: My Birthplace, Libby, Montana April 28,2009 post

Title: My friend, Angela - A descendant of slaves who settled Niccodemus, Kansas April 10, 2009 post (photo by Carol Yoho)

Title: A Trip to Kentucky - (Kandy's cat) March 2009 post

Title: Margaret Borland, Texas Rancher - (Borland's Tombstone, Victoria, TX) posted March 2009

Title: Synsethesia (A special kind of color) - Kathy then and now posted Feb. 2009

Title: What Is This Thing Called Death? - posted Jan. 20, 2009 My late brother, Dan, and his wife, Lindy

Title: Photo From Past Years - posted Dec 31, 2008, A friend sent this old photo of my husband, daughter, and me in her Christmas card this year. Printed from a slide, it must be a mirror image as my husband's wedding band appears to be on his right hand.

Eunie's Blog ( The Archives contain a link to all of my blogs. To access a blog not visible find the photo on the left that corresponds to the blog. The date it was posted is listed under the title. Scroll down to the archives and click on the date.)

hope for hitler's youth

February 3, 2012

Tags: Adolph Hiter, Baby Lager, Prisoners of War, WWII, Emma Donoghue, Room, Attichy, France, Compiégne, France

Hitler, the maniacal mastermind of the Nazi party committed suicide shortly before Germany surrendered to the Allied Forces on May 8, 1945. In those last months of the war in Europe, American soldiers had captured thousands of Hitler’s boy soldiers, ages 12 to 17. Some boys as young as 8 had (more…)

A Hypnotic Suggestion For You

January 2, 2012

Tags: Henry Leo Bolduc, hypnosis, self-help, diets, changing habits, the subconscious mind

When my sister-in-law used hypnosis to deliver her baby without drugs and pain free, I seized on the idea and eagerly approached my doctor about it for my next pregnancy. It only made me sick. When he had me lie down on my back, pick out a spot on (more…)

Atheists and Christmas

November 30, 2011

Tags: atheist; Christmas; Atheists for Jesus; winter solstice; Akiane Kramark

Atheist and Christmas

I was wondering the other day if atheists celebrate Christmas. Well, I found out they sure do. They like gifts just as much as anyone else and they like the smell of pine and the soft shimmering lights of the tree. They like that the tree was once a pagan symbol and perhaps decry the fact that it been modified, so to speak, for (more…)

Autograph Books

November 7, 2011

Tags: funeral director; appendicitis; autograph books; college kids; Mickey Mouse Watch

The other day I ran across my husband’s first autograph book. He received the book the year he was nine, but that year of 1941 he collected few writings. The majority of writings from classmates and relatives were in the next years. The last dated entry is 1946. Most of the autographs were in rhyme (more…)

Hobo Nickels

October 5, 2011

Tags: Folk Art, "Bo" George Washington Hughes, buffalo nickels, hobos, hobo camps, The Depression

A new art form came into being in 1913 when the Buffalo nickel was minted. The size, thickness, and the relative softness of the coin, featuring a buffalo on one side and the profile of an Indian on the other, attracted a new kind of artist, the wandering man. Those hobo artists with their small (more…)

Chief Standing Bear

September 6, 2011

Tags: Old Fort Omaha, The Ponca Indians, Thomas Tibbles, Omaha Daily Heald, Trial of Chief Standing Bear, General George Crook, Judge Elmer Dundy

The Europeans, who invaded this country and pushed the Indian people from the land they’d always called home, probably had to see those they were displacing, by all means possible, as non-human. For much of what they did was certainly inhuman. Of course, the whites could point across the chasm to the Indians’ (more…)

Animal Meteorologists

August 12, 2011

Tags: tsunami, meteorologist, Abe Lincoln, weather forecast, jackasses

It is said that before a tsunami roars onto land, the animals will have already moved to higher ground. I remember reading some years ago that before an earthquake hit in Italy a donkey began to bray and move nervously about. Such an animal was once the subject of Abraham Lincoln’s wry humor. (more…)

The Sleep That is Not A Sleep

July 4, 2011

Tags: sleeping sickness, encephalitis lethargica, Oliver Sacks, Spanish Flu

Rip Van Winkle and Sleeping Beauty may have had it, or more accurately their authors may have had either personal experience with the disease or at least known of it. For Encephalitis Lethargica or Sleeping Sickness may have been around since the dawn of time. Recorded accounts of cases of unexplained sleep go back (more…)

The Surviving/Grieving Child

May 26, 2011

Tags: Children and grief, Families and grief, parental loss, sibling loss

A keynote speaker at John Hopkins some years ago, Jacquie Gordon, told of losing a twenty-one year old daughter. Her other daughter, age fifteen, succumbed to depression and anorexia in her efforts to make up for her parent’s loss. “Don’t be selfish about tragedy,” Gordon said. “It isn’t just the mother (more…)

A Native American Tale

April 26, 2011

Tags: Native Americans; Butterflies; Dr. Josef Mengele; Auschwitz; twins

A Native American Tale

One day the Creator watched a group of village children at play, running, laughing, singing, and a deep sadness filled him for he knew those young, nimble, happy children would grow old and infirm, their hair silver, their skin wrinkled, their steps slow. The Creator looked at the flowers blooming (more…)

western fiction
A story of murder, cowboys, cattle drives, outlaws, young love, sorrow, and joy set in 1870s Texas
History/Fiction
A pioneer story of true courage in the midst of overwhelming adversity.
Dust storms, rabbit drives, bootleggers, and hoboes all part of life in the Great Depression.
A family must go against society's laws to aid a runaway slave.
Two girls of different cultures and races learn that they are more alike than different.