Tag: family
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August 25, 2007 02:21 PM EDT --
Tamara has a place to live - not only that, but it is available now... can start moving things in as soon as she figures out how she's going to do that.
***update*** - she just got a message from . . . more
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June 06, 2008 02:45 PM EDT --
Those who know me (and through me, my family) may remember a photo essay I posted about Kacy, my 9-year-old daughter and her recent performance at a school talent show. It has been no great mystery . . . more
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June 10, 2008 06:09 PM EDT --
Recently, Peter Wimsey posted a postcard with a reference to Halley's Comet . It reminded me of my Grandma Alice's mention of the same. So here is another "chapter" of Grandma Alice, . . . more
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July 26, 2007 12:37 AM EDT --
Several people have remarked that they haven't seen me around as much. When I was off work with my broken arm, I had a LOT of available Gather time. Now that I am back to work, I have a . . . more
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August 22, 2008 10:12 AM EDT --
My parents essentially had two families. My brother Rick and my sister Kristi are eight and nine years older than me respecctively. My brother Roger is four years younger than me. It's funny . . . more
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June 05, 2008 10:12 AM EDT --
Sometimes I'm embarrassed to tell people that I had a really nice childhood. I had great parents who stayed married until my mother's death when I was 25. We lived in a modest, but comfortably . . . more
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December 24, 2007 11:43 AM EST --
Okay, first I bought Christmas cards, addressed and signed them, and sent them out. Check.
Put up three individual artificial trees. Check.
I decorated individual ornaments for . . . more
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May 09, 2008 07:51 PM EDT --
I do a lot of genealogy work for other people. I love finding long lost family members and solving genealogical puzzles. This is some genealogy work I did for my own family and involves a little history . . . more
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May 10, 2008 02:50 PM EDT --
This is a story written first person from Grandma Alice's point of view. Like with all my Grandma Alice stories, the whole is taken from bits and pieces of letters and notes I found that . . . more
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March 11, 2008 11:29 AM EDT --
hello friends! it has been a crazy month for me. you know how it is, when you adapt to all the variables in your life and are going along smoothly, and then KAPOW, something happens to tilt the apple cart? . . . more
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September 15, 2007 09:46 PM EDT --
It is a terrifically hard thing to lose a beloved friend. Life does go on though, and we both felt that it was important for Spike to have a younger and more playful dog in his life. When Buddy died . . . more
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April 04, 2008 06:56 PM EDT --
This postcard is especially poignant to me. Although it was never mailed, I know approximately when it was purchased.
It was from my Aunt Doris "Feenie" Turner . . . more
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June 15, 2008 08:12 PM EDT --
This isn't actually a childhood memory I have concerning my dad but rather a story my dad told me about the latter part of his own childhood.
In 1950, my dad, Richard Klamm, graduated from Washington . . . more
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March 08, 2008 09:43 AM EST --
I wrote this awhile ago, and some of you may have read it already, but it fits well for this weeks challenge word, sacrifice.
What's Left When the Heart's Gone
. . . more
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August 18, 2007 11:57 PM EDT --
I am so used to being around my three grandkids that I babysit every day. In fact, this last week that I was out of town is the longest period I have ever been away from my four yr old grandson. I found . . . more
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April 17, 2008 10:14 PM EDT --
( a re-post for Spotlighting)
It was the Adirondack Mountains. I could smell the tall pines around me. The babbling, rocky Sacandaga River was near by and I was a little girl again. . . . more
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May 07, 2007 07:24 PM EDT --
I hate this war.
I thought at first it was a knee-jerk reaction because I was a teenager during the worst of the Viet Nam tragedy. It's not. I hate this war.
I hate it because from the very beginning, . . . more
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May 27, 2007 07:43 PM EDT --
When I was growing up in the Midwest, we called Memorial Day, “Decoration Day”. It was the day we decorated the graves of loved ones with flowers.
A few days before Memorial Day, Mom would . . . more
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May 05, 2008 02:42 PM EDT --
An exchange of comments on an image by Lance L. got me to thinking, if I had the opportunity to pick my family, who would I add and who would I subtract and who would I replace with whom?
I had a . . . more
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August 21, 2007 09:23 PM EDT --
Shan and I just returned from our week of visiting with my parents in Missouri. I had a vision in my mind of returning to the woods I used to walk in when my parents lived on the farm. . . . more
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