Tag: stories
group name: famiilyhistory
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April 22, 2006 08:18 PM EDT --
For those of us sentenced to Catholic school, back-to-school shopping promised few thrills beyond walking to Kresges with all the neighborhood . . . more
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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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April 28, 2006 12:08 AM EDT --
I slowly creep from between warm sheets
And pull my boots upon small feet,
I think again of my warm bed,
Put on my coat, place hat on head.
I step into the frosty night,
My heart is thumping . . . more
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July 27, 2006 12:31 AM EDT --
I have written before about the death of my fiancee, Robert Varraso, when I was just 20 years old. This is something I wrote shortly after he died.
I had never expected to be there. I stepped . . . more
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August 11, 2006 08:54 PM EDT --
I went for a walk with my mother yesterday. I walked out the back door with the confused imposter who had been living in her body the . . . more
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May 15, 2006 05:03 AM EDT --
When I was four, we went to Sears. You wore seamed stockings, a black dress and a hat with a veil.
All I ever wanted was to try on dresses.
When I was six, I went to kindergarten.
All I ever wanted . . . more
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May 07, 2006 11:20 PM EDT --
Silence for those who gave their lives
At sea, during the Battle of the Atlantic.
As we gave honor to those seamen,
The call of seagulls filled the air -
No, we weren't near the ocean,
These . . . more
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May 28, 2006 10:23 PM EDT --
Some of my most cherished childhood memories center around visits to my grandmother Florence's house in Glendale, California. A modest adobe-style dwelling built in the 1920's, . . . more
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May 29, 2006 01:34 PM EDT --
In Part I, I shared with you the tragic loss of my Uncle Bill in a flight training accident days before the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Family lore has it that he died due to lack of treatment at the . . . more
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March 15, 2006 09:20 PM EST --
Open book old photos took
Of day's gone by on sacred brook.
Who am I, who now stands nigh?
Oh, threaded tapestry of years gone by!
Looking out beyond the sea,
I see what things forgotten . . . 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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July 25, 2006 02:49 AM EDT --
The Cookbook
I have "owned" the cookbook for over 36 years now. The title of it is, Meta Given's Encyclopedia of Cooking and my version is the 1952 edition. My mother had two cookbooks . . . more
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July 02, 2006 08:48 PM EDT --
I became a writer when my thoughts became too personal for a diary. No surprise, since my parents did not believe in privacy for children. And they saw me as a child, even in high school. Instead of acting . . . 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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July 02, 2006 05:55 PM EDT --
Most of my life, I've been terrified of snakes. Whatever their size, shape, or coloring, the very sight of one has been enough to make my limbs go numb. It's as if they could reach out and bite . . . more
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October 11, 2006 12:14 AM EDT --
Of course it wasn't done intentionally so to speak, he was trying to avoid his family from being shunned upon in society.
See Paw-paw was a red-skinned white man (if that's possible), as was my . . . 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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February 13, 2007 04:49 PM EST --
My grandma loved children, no matter the age. She also loved to have her house filled with her children's friends. She could whip together a special treat out of almost nothing -- which she often had . . . more
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April 28, 2006 11:55 PM EDT --
Grandma always wore an apron except when she went to town or attended church. I never remember seeing her without it when she was at home. When she came downstairs in the morning, she would take a freshly . . . more
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