Archives in Category: Nostalgia

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Books

Posted on July 29, 2004

Summer’s flying! It’s almost the end of July, and I am reading only my second book of the season. It reminds me of when I was between eighth grade and high school, and the local library sponsored reading clubs during

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Bastille Day

Posted on July 14, 2004

Today is Bastille Day in France; and, given the state of Franco-American relations, I doubt Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings, or Dan Rather will mention it on their broadcasts. Historically, however, Bastille Day symbolizes the French Revolution and the overthrow of

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Projects

Posted on July 11, 2004

Noreen and I were nothing if not enterprising in finding ways to challenge ourselves when our children were young and we were college-educated-women who stayed home to tend the hearth in the late nineteen-sixties. We thought we were liberated, but

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Candles

Posted on July 10, 2004

My long-time friend, Noreen, was about to throw out a back issue of Martha Stewart’s Living magazine, when a teaser for one of the articles caught her eye. It was about candles.

I don’t mean the kind you buy in kitchy

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Thoughts on the Weekend

Posted on June 4, 2004

It is Friday, June 4, 2004, and we are heading into the weekend. But not just any weekend; it is my birthday weekend. Mine and the birthday of the invasion of Normandy, which occurred on June 6, 1944, within hours

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Please, Mr. Bush

Posted on June 2, 2004

Advance press releases on the Internet report that President Bush gives the commencement address at the U. S. Air Force Academy this afternoon. In his speech, he plans to compare the War on Terrorism in the Middle East to World

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Willie Mc Cord

Posted on May 31, 2004

Willie Mc Cord was a private from Arkansas who fought for the North in the Civil War. Somehow, when the war was over, he ended up in Michigan. Maybe he met someone and fell in love; perhaps he wanted a

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