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~:: Once Upon a Time ::~
I don’t believe in fairy tales. I think I did once, but only a little. I did believe in Santa Claus. Or else, I believed that there was a “should” to finding surprises and delights left in your...
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~:: Being Connected ::~
I came from a tiny family – three of us kids. But my parents came from tinier ones: two kids in each family. I had one uncle (and his wife) and one aunt (and her husband). Four cousins in one...
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~:: 365 Dollars Short ::~
The last time I really felt like telling a story here – I mean, that feeling that drives you to put things into words – was last year. A year ago. And I didn’t do it. It was on a June weekend, the...
View Article~:: Reset ::~
I don’t know if this starting again will work. Mostly because I don’t know why it stopped working in the first place. It has occurred to me that the problem might have been in having too much to say,...
View Article~:: Frozen – a Case for Thawing Out a Little ::~
I haven’t blogged for months, and what finally goads me into writing? A movie. Or rather, some public reaction to a movie. When I saw the trailer for Frozen, months and months ago, I wasn’t...
View Article~:: That Which Makes Us Tired ::~
In response to a blog recommended to me by my dear M: my comment. It would appear that I can still write opinion. I may not be sitting down with images just now, or telling stories of family life, but...
View Article~:: A Sad Little Story ::~
Some of you aren’t going to understand this. The last year has been just kinda hard. I shake my head at myself for writing that, knowing the kinds of things many of you have been dealing with. Mine has...
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~:: A Story ::~
The problem with me and blogging these last couple of years is simple and systemic: you have to be able to sit still long enough to write something down. Sitting still works while you are in thinking...
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~:: What is the Grandmother Doing? ::~
Yeah – it’s been an age since I entered anything here. But then, it’s been an age since I started doing genealogy again. I finished a long-time dream: the book of my darling mother’s life. Turned out...
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~:: On Making Things ::~
I wonder, sometimes, how many stupid things I say in a day. How many things that make total sense to me, but that can be, and will probably be, construed differently by the people I say them to?...
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