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October 14, 2009
- As Monday, Columbus Day, was a no-school day, I grabbed the opportunity to pick up my first-grade grandson Jakie from his suburban home and bring him to New York City for 24 hours. Until my daughter and her family moved away a year ago, Jakie would spend an afternoon with me every weekend, with an occasional midweek visit or a full weekend. Out list of activities was long, and he would choose ...
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August 11, 2009
- Red came into my life when there was room for nobody. It was empty. Emptiness takes up all the space. Red was lying among several soft toys. Women younger than me were buying those for their kids. I spotted Red, arms akimbo. I touched it, just a little brush, with the nonchalance I need to practise in my 'woman of the world' act. I walked away.There was a cafe in the mall. I stuffed myself with a ...
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March 29, 2009
- After taking Geri Ann to high school Thursday morning, Gerald just kept driving towards Illinois and arrived at Woodsong with beautiful weather here that afternoon. Very soon he had photos of all the family in Georgia printed and spread out on the family room coffee table.
This morning shortly before 5 a.m. after driving all night and taking her Gma Shirley down the road to her home, Tara ...
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March 4, 2009
- One Christmas Eve shortly after our parents put us to bed, we started playing upstairs in our bedrooms. The girls were giggling and the boys were wrestling with one another and jumping on their beds. Mom and Dad must have been worn out from all the preparations weeks before this most wonderful time of the year. My dad came up the stairs several times to calm us down from all the excitement ...
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November 15, 2008
- And Christmas was truly a Holy Christmas, as every year my dad would freshly paint the house inside and added his talented artistic creations of holiday festivities that it truly looked like a hallmark card along with so many children, bicycles, dolls and toy trucks around the Christmas tree. I will never forget the smell of the tree, mom cooking abundant meals, and the smell of homemade ...
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August 20, 2008
- The day before yesterday I received a call from my wife. She and our daughter Debi saw a baby Opossum under the deck and marvelled at how cute is was. By marvelling I mean squealing with delight.The odd thing about the situation is: Little Honey, aka Clarice, aka the white and orange cat that we found as a kitten two blocks away was standing near it.Yesterday my wife was talking to me on the ...
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