they would turn in their graves

Because I was able to find less biographical information than usual about these important women in my life, today I'm highlighting three teachers: Linda Gosling, 1986 Linda Carol Chandler   was born in 1948 in Michigan, the daughter of Charles Price and Carolyn Joy (Lapointe) Chandler. In 1950, Linda was living with her parents in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, where her father was a dentist and her mother was keeping house. In 1964, Linda was listed in the Kimball High School yearbook in Royal Oak, Michigan. She was married to Joseph Michael Gosling before 1987. I met Mrs. Gosling in the fall of 1986 when I was an eighth grader at Avondale Middle School. She was my algebra teacher. The prior year our district had instituted an experimental program, enrolling about thirty seventh graders in pre-algebra. Prior to that year, no student in Avondale School District could take any advanced mathematics course until high school. Generally freshmen took either pre-algebra or “business ma...

Remember back on 1 October 2025 when the government shut down, and millions of government employees were furloughed? My sister, an employee of the United States Forest Service, was among those people. She had already scheduled her vacation during the furlough time, and was also able to spend some time with our parents while away from work. I don't have any word yet on whether she received any back pay from the furlough time, and it certainly affected her financial bottom line. And...her vacation didn't count, because she was on furlough, so she has to take some more vacation time before the end of the year or lose the accrued vacation. Also on 1 October 2025, my husband's employer (not a government entity) used the government shutdown as an excuse to fire him and six other employees. One of their clients, the U. S. Department of Energy, had not paid any of their invoices since July, and during the shutdown would definitely not be paying any more, for at least the length of ...

Ida Swigart Ida May Nyberg was born in 1933 in Duluth, Saint Louis County, Minnesota, the daughter of Jacob E. Nyberg (a native of Sweden) and Mary (Preston) Nyberg, a native of Wisconsin. The Nyberg family lived in Royal Oak, Oakland County, Michigan in 1935. In 1940, Ida, her sister Margaret and her parents were living in Sterling Township, Macomb County, Michigan. At that time Jacob was a truck driver for a sewer construction company and her mother was a homemaker. In 1949, the Nybergs joined the Immanuel Lutheran Church, a Swedish-American church, in Detroit, Michigan. The 1950 census located Jacob, Mary, Ida and Margaret residing on Fourteen Mile Road in Sterling Township, Macomb County, Michigan; Jacob was working as a tool and die maker. In June 1955, Ida traveled with her parents on the   Stockholm   to Sweden, where they planned to stay three months. She returned in August 1955 on the  Kungsholm . The Kansas City Star , 30 December 1956: “The marriage of Miss Ida...