Archives in Category: Nostalgia

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Christmas, 2004

Posted on January 2, 2005

It’s time to take down all the Christmas decorations, the tree, and the lights and squirrel them away for another year. We’re not ones to leave things up long into the new year, so this morning Earl and I dragged

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Christmas Carols

Posted on December 13, 2004

Just as some well-known singer was raised on country sunshine, I was raised on Christmas Carols. I learned them, one word at a time, in the various Catholic schools I attended; and I demonstrated my knowledge of them in more

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The Little Match Girl

Posted on December 11, 2004

A couple days ago, my favorite aunt read my mini-essay about old friends who visit at the holiday and it recalled her own special friend. She emailed me to add “The Little Match Girl” to my list.

Ah, Hans Christian Andersen’s

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Remembering

Posted on December 7, 2004

Ten years ago today my stepfather, Ollie, died in his sleep while my Mother was taking houseguests to the airport. It was early in the morning and she left him in bed, with a kiss no doubt, whispering that she

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Snowmen

Posted on December 5, 2004

It started with the story of Frosty, which I read years ago. The original story of Frosty, that is. I think it was in a Reader’s Digest, but I can’t quite remember for sure. All I know is that long

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Old Friends

Posted on December 4, 2004

The Christmas season is peopled with many visitors who make an annual appearance and warm the heart.

Jim and Della, from O. Henry’s short story “The Gift of the Magi,” never fail to make me remember the selflessness of real love.

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Colorado

Posted on November 28, 2004

Colorado has been a thread in the fabric of my life forever. I first came here when I was less than a teen, attending a summer camp in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains. I spent six weeks learning to

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JFK

Posted on November 22, 2004

Forty-one years ago today John Fitzgerald Kennedy, then President of the United States, was shot to death in Dallas, TX. Anybody who was a teenager or older at the time remembers exactly where he or she was when the news

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Christmas Tradition

Posted on November 15, 2004

It started three years ago when my friend, Noreen, and her husband, George, showed up on our doorstep – not unexpectedly – to help us decorate our Christmas tree. Until then, this task was relegated to me alone; and it

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Moving Furniture

Posted on November 11, 2004

The morning found me puttering around the living room, moving an easy chair to make way for the annual Christmas tree, and pushing the couch this way and that. It probably doesn’t have the status of ‘hobby,’ but I enjoy

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