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She Did Her Best
I’m standing at the kitchen counter spreading cream cheese on crackers as a substitute for supper, and my mother’s approach to school lunches rises in my mind. I’m not sure of the connection, other than the cream cheese. Mother loved
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Strawberry Time
Where I live in southwestern Michigan it’s time for fruit and veggie stands to crop up, almost as plentiful as weeds but much more appreciated. Already asparagus has come and gone, and now it’s strawberries’ turn.
For the past week
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Grade School Reunion Redux
This weekend I entered a time capsule, one that transported me back to the late 1950s when my classmates and I were under the auspices of the nuns who staffed St. Louis Cathedral School and tried to mold our characters.
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Wyoming
My impressions of Wyoming were formed when I was twelve, after reading Mary O’Hara’s “Flicka” trilogy. These books chronicle the lives of the McLaughlin family who live on a horse ranch in Wyoming. It’s really a coming-of-age story about Ken,
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Titanic
It will be one hundred years tomorrow that the unsinkable Titanic hit an iceberg and sank on its maiden voyage. Since then, the disaster has captured our collective memory, engraving the story indelibly in film, biography, public television, and newscasts.
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Grade School Reunion
I graduated from grade school in the spring of 1957, fifty-five years ago this coming May. It was a glorious time. I loved my classmates, which was important since I’d gone to five grade schools and really hoped to belong
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Bees
Bees are always around. And I don’t mean the kind that stings when their territory is invaded. I mean the word. Bees.
Just tonight the local newspaper announced that a team called the Bees was vying for first place in
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More Memory Lane
Earl continues to mine the treasures of various boxes from his parents’ home. We’ve stored them for several years, but now we’re intent on going through them and deciding what’s worth saving.
Today we found a birthday card to Earl
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Memory Lane
In his desire to clean our locker, Earl is going through a box of his parents’ memorabilia and deciding what to toss and what to keep. Most of the newspaper articles are not making the cut, but they provide a
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Murder, She Wrote
Angela Lansbury reigned supreme in our household during the 1980s when she starred as Jessica Fletcher in “Murder, She Wrote,” on Sunday nights.
Last week I received DVDs of her first three seasons as the mystery writer who solves
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