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I’m Not Sorry About My Dad
I have had this post going on in my head since October, 2015. That’s when my Dad died. My Dad had many people who thought well of him and many, many who came to the visitations at the funeral home … Continue reading
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Little House and my Happy Golden Years
One of the reasons I’m grateful that I got to have at least one child is that I was given the opportunity to revisit the Little House series. My old books, purchased in the late 60s/early 70s, got to come … Continue reading
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Thanks for the Memories
I’m actually not very good with remembering things. I was listening to a podcast with Karen Glass, author of Know and Tell: The Art of Narration, and she mentioned that Charlotte Mason made a distinction between Memorization and Memory. Yep, … Continue reading
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I’m Jolly Well Going to Get Some of the Advantages, Too
I am the fourth of my parents’ five children. Our youngest sibling passed from this life at the age of 31 from cancer. That was an anomaly in our family longevity, except for our maternal grandmother who died at 36 … Continue reading
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She’s Back! What in the world was she thinking?
Here’s where I begin typing and as I go along, decide what exactly I want to do at this place after 4 years of silence. I was never great at the technical side of this having a blog, and now … Continue reading
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James Dewey: The Legacy of a Name
My brother James Lester Davis was born just before my 5th birthday. He was named for a paternal great-grandfather, James Davis, and our paternal grandfather, Lester Davis. At some point in his growing up years our mother told him that … Continue reading
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Might Makes Right
In pondering more about the Boston Tea Party this morning, I got to thinking about “the glory” in knowing that our eventual independence, acquired some nine (end of war) or eleven (signing of the Treaty) years later, came about because we … Continue reading
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Recent ramblings on the passage of my time on this planet
Here are some status updates from my Facebook page during the month of June. And to these I’ve added another thought in this category. 6/30/12 I realize that if we stay on this planet long enough, it happens to us … Continue reading
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Wanting to Belong II – “House Rules” by Jodi Picoult
Emma Hunt is a single mother of two teen-aged boys. Jacob, the older of the two, has Asperger’s Syndrome. Fifteen year old Theo does not. Their mother has established “house rules,” which include “Tell the Truth” and “Take care of … Continue reading
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Wanting to Belong — Brat Farrar
On the suggestion of a friend who said, “I can eat her books like jelly donuts,” I brought home two Josephine Tey novels from the library and another is on its way from Amazon. I chose Brat Farrar for my first … Continue reading
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