Category: Family
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How would you begin?
Random thought that has been kicking around inside of my head – “If you had to write your own story, how would you begin?” In other words, what would the first sentence of your autobiography be? I don’t know why this has suddenly become important to me. But it seems to be where my mind…
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Random Thoughts. A Mini-Autobiography
I had no idea that my random thoughts were going to turn into a mini-autobiography. If that’s not your thing, or not why you are here, feel free to pass over this one. Unfortunately, I need a bunch of background to support the thing that I have been thinking about. History time My parents split…
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Moving Pictures
The title of this post, Moving Pictures, is kind of a play on words. My mom passed away a little over a year ago, and we have been slowly and intermittently dealing with her “stuff”. We had downsized her quite a bit before she moved in with us several years before, but the number of…
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What do you say when there’s nothing to say?
Maybe I am just unusually introspective. I think a lot about being a parent as I get older. It seems that “good parenting” is something that can only be judged in hindsight. Not long ago, a friend of the family was (understandably) upset. Their mother had passed away. I can relate to this somewhat, because…