Tag: children
group name: famiilyhistory
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August 14, 2006 05:05 PM EDT --
I shared my childhood experience, knowing she would ignore me the same as I had shunned those who tried to warn me. Glasses and braces . . . more
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May 19, 2006 10:35 PM EDT --
The snapshot is of particular interest as a recording of everyday life. Because snapshots are certainly not rare, and often unidentified when found orphaned, they are the humblest of what could be . . . more
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June 17, 2006 03:16 PM EDT --
I breezed past the card aisles and stores this year without feeling the pull. My father, grandfathers, and the uncles and friends . . . more
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March 14, 2006 05:51 PM EST --
I have almost no family. I was an only, no sisters or brothers, of unusual birth circumstances.
Three years ago I moved my then 81 year old mother from the family homestead 450 miles . . . more
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February 22, 2006 05:26 PM EST --
To be a opera singer means years of study----I mean years of study. Grueling study, long sessions in front of the voice coach, and a mirror, daily hours spent in the practice rooms at college or . . . more
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February 22, 2006 09:33 PM EST --
My mother took me down around the corner to the Elkhorn Motel (we had the Red Mountain Lodge). The two were about a quarter mile apart. Roger was 5; so was I. Proximity. It made . . . more
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May 11, 2006 09:49 AM EDT --
A Curious Man
Some called Dad a strange duck. Others admired him. Dad had the reputation as a walking encyclopedia. The family had learned early on not to ask him how the water pump (or any other contraption) . . . more
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June 05, 2006 07:47 PM EDT --
on the way to bed last night, i walked by the fan in the window - and stopped abruptly in my tracks. moved closer. inhaled. and just went back in time, to granny and grampa's wonderful porch: all . . . more
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September 01, 2006 10:20 PM EDT --
Ruth Stewart was so kind as to trigger an urge to write about my parents. She said "I bet it was the best day you and your father ever had..... ", and I had to think. Yes it was pretty . . . more
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June 16, 2006 10:17 AM EDT --
There are fathers:
Who make their babies giggle and squeal
And some who feel a little strange around the baby
Who change the diapers
And some who can't seem to get the hang of it
Who fix the . . . more
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May 13, 2006 12:02 PM EDT --
When the Fancher party came west to Salt Lake, it was as if their fate were sealed by the temper of the times.
In 1857, the Fancher party was the second largest Gentile wagon train headed west, second . . . more
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September 27, 2007 12:52 PM EDT --
I have always called my children "My 5 Good Eggs". Today is a very special day!
Good Egg # 5...my youngest chickie is Celebrating her 24th birthday!
September 27th witnessed the birth . . . more
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April 06, 2006 03:25 PM EDT --
Watching the next generation of me
is better than I thought it'd be.
I'm seeing myself in three parts -
three versions of my soul.
What makes me feel best is
they're all . . . more
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December 21, 2006 12:13 AM EST --
“Mama, will Christmas come this year?”
“Of course, it comes every year.”
“I mean, will it come to us this year?”
Mama paused. “Yes, Myra, it will . . . more
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November 28, 2006 11:36 AM EST --
Which musical artist embodies your childhood memories of Christmas? For me, it is Burl Ives. There are many other great singers and many other treasured singers of Christmas songs, but for me, . . . more
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April 12, 2006 06:19 PM EDT --
There wasn't really room in his life for much more. After all . . . or perhaps before all . . . he was in love.
And first in his mind and heart, there was always Ellen.
He was the child . . . more
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December 23, 2006 09:44 PM EST --
When i was about thirteen years old and my sister eleven. WE would go and stay with my aunt and uncle. My uncle own a ice company. We would get up about four in the morning to bag ice. I would . . . more
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July 11, 2006 11:45 AM EDT --
A dear friend lost her mother to old age, Alzheimer's, and time this last week.
She's having a pretty rough time, letting go and moving on, even though she's been going through this for the . . . more
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October 06, 2006 02:01 AM EDT --
"Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer"…*
could not hear my thoughts
after my father died,
could not stop crying
20 years later, prostrate before . . . more
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December 20, 2006 03:46 AM EST --
My dad's family heritage was German. When I was a kid we would go to Granny and Pop Jahrling's house for Christmas. Their tree was huge and grand. Granny had trimmed it with her handmade German . . . more
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