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Love Letter To A Young Man In A Foreign Land: Short Memoir
The following “memoir” was published online elsewhere, only the website has since disappeared. Thus, I resurrect my creative attempt at remembrance here. *** “Virgen de Quito” by Lion Hirth...
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Sweet Home Alabama #MondayBlogs
Well, Alabama ain’t my home and Lynyrd Skynyrd ain’t my favorite band (except for Free Bird and that in large part because it was the favorite song of a cousin I looked up to). But Alabama is my...
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Asking for Forgiveness: A Memoir #memoir #MondayBlogs
Yesterday would have been my father’s 96th birthday. I think he’s rather handsome. He died in his sleep in November 1992. The kind of death anyone would want. At least at the end, someone (God?) cut...
View ArticleAmbushed by Dead Sea Secrets #MondayBlogs #humor
The following post was originally written in February 2009 and published on this blog in March 2013. Since I’ve gained a few new followers since 2013, here it is again. . ### I had just wanted to get...
View ArticleReblog: LOVING JONI by Jan Priddy and My Own Take on Reframing Myself...
via LOVING JONI I love this essay to the moon and back. I love when someone’s writing sparks me to write, especially when it’s something other than what I intended to write. Last night my husband and I...
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Theodore Albers, WW II Veteran #MondayBlogs #MemorialDay2019
I wasn’t born yet when my family moved in next to you. My older sister got your heart first. You still had dark hair. You often told me how pleased you were when my family moved in. You never had...
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Theodore Albers, WW II Veteran #MondayBlogs #MemorialDay2021
I wrote this post in 2019. Every Memorial Day (and most days in-between), I think of Ted Albers and how much I miss him. While Memorial Day is for remembering those veterans we’ve lost, do me a favor...
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Raccoons, Deer, and Love
https://unsplash.com/photos/3UYpEUNgh78?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditShareLink It’s been so long since our last hike at Big Basin Redwood State Park in California....
View ArticleTheodore Albers, WW II Veteran #MondayBlogs #MemorialDay2023
I wrote this post in 2019 and reposted it in 2022. I'm doing so again this year. Every Memorial Day (and most days in-between), I think of Ted Albers and how much I miss him. While Memorial Day is for...
View ArticleThinking of My Sister on Her Birthday
Today--August 2--is my sister Shirley's 77th birthday. If she were still with us. I wrote this micro memoir a few months ago. Sister It wasn’t that hot, not that day. But a line of white crusted her...
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