Archives in Category: Nostalgia

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A Day Late

Posted on December 8, 2008

Yesterday was the sixty-seventh anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. How many people are alive who remember it? I’m sure there are many, but fewer and fewer as the years go by. I was only six months

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A Hole in the Fabric

Posted on May 18, 2008

The message waited patiently in voicemail until we returned from dinner last night. I listened to it twice in disbelief and then checked the day’s obituaries for confirmation.

George, the handyman who had helped us repair, paint, and improve our

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Christopher Robin

Posted on April 20, 2008

Not many people care and fewer people remember that the fictional Winnie the Pooh’s best friend, Christopher Robin, was fashioned after a flesh-and-blood child, the only son of the author of the famous Pooh stories.

During the real Christopher Robin’s

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Primary Disappointment

Posted on January 31, 2008

In the past couple days, Republican Rudy Giuliani and Democrat John Edwards have dropped from the race for president. Giuliani now endorses John McCain, while — as of this writing — Edwards has not declared his preference between Hillary Clinton

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Snapshots

Posted on January 17, 2008

The next primaries aren’t until this Saturday, January 19, so I’ve entertained myself with watching the premier of the new season of “American Idol.” A couple moments even brought soft tears to my eyes, which is more than I can

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Good Times

Posted on January 7, 2008

Earl was cleaning out some boxes recently and came across three postcards I’d sent him a decade ago. I’d gone to France to visit some long-time friends and kept him apprised of our activities from time to time.

The

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Happy New Year

Posted on January 1, 2008

This is my first blog for 2008. Earl and I spent New Year’s Eve with old friends. (I’m talking how long I’ve know them here; not their ages.) We’ve ushered in the New Year with them before, so there was

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Eight Lights

Posted on December 1, 2007

Today I spent the better part of the afternoon trimming our Christmas tree, and it always makes me sentimental. Some of my ornaments are ages old and come from my former lives; putting them on the tree provides for recollections.

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Old Women Revisited

Posted on October 27, 2007

About ten years ago, I wrote an essay about my childhood friend Carol, whom I’ve known since sixth grade. She was eleven and I was ten when we met. I just spent the last three days with her and feel

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Summer’s Over

Posted on September 5, 2007

Monday was Labor Day. In a way, it’s an oxymoron that one should simply relax on Labor Day, but I’m willing to let grammatical issues slide to go with the flow. What strikes me most, however, is that Labor Day

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