Archives in Category: Nostalgia

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Staring at Me

Posted on July 6, 2016

There is a shelf in my office above the external monitors where I keep mementos, and I was studying them today.  The small statue of Brahms was a gift from my piano teacher when I finally mastered the dotted quarter

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Marathon Musings

Posted on June 17, 2016

I’ve never been to Duluth, MN, and might never have come now except for my son Kevin’s plans to participate in Grandma’s Marathon tomorrow. It’s the fortieth anniversary running of this event; and it’s being acknowledged in a big way.

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Memory Riff

Posted on June 4, 2016

Waylon and Johnny are dead. Kris is still into music but has a form of dementia as he approaches eighty. And Willie . . . is just Willie. At eighty-three, he’s still on the road making music with his friends.

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Libby

Posted on March 22, 2016

I got the call last night; Libby had died. She was in her mid-nineties, and I hadn’t seen her in almost twenty years, so our relationship was mostly birthday cards and flowers at Christmas. Still I appreciated the call.

I

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The Concert in Grant Park

Posted on December 21, 2015

Recently I caught a rerun on PBS of Simon and Garfunkle’s Concert in Central Park, which was originally performed in September, 1981.  It was a free concert that the folk duo gave before five hundred thousand people to help raise

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Honoring the Day

Posted on December 7, 2015

Many Americans remember that on this day in 1941, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and the United States subsequently joined World War II. I say ‘many’ because as the decades tumble after each other, there are fewer and fewer people

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Tea Anyone?

Posted on October 2, 2015

I found a story in tea cups during book club at my home yesterday.

I was preparing to serve the usual coffee, tea, and water.  Got the mugs out for the Joe; found my pitcher for the water; and then

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Memory’s Tug

Posted on September 29, 2015

Keith and Chris gave me a snow globe several years ago that had two scenes of New York City.  One was above ground and showed various famous skyscrapers, while one was below ground and showed various subway stops.  It is

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Memory Lane

Posted on September 18, 2015

The three and a half years I spent in St. Louis in my youth were magical. I was a tween and a teen back then; and I had the greatest friends in the world.

Most of us lived within walking

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Comfort Food

Posted on February 20, 2015

It was an important text from my son who lives in upstate New York.  It read “Thinking of you. (Actually he wrote ‘u’, but I can’t bring myself to do that.) About to have Spaghettios ® for dinner. Very excited.”

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