Showing posts with label parenting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label parenting. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 3, 2019

Talking with a Boy in the Woods

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My boy and I took a walk one day far into the forest. With every step, people-generated noise like voices and cars was confronted then swall...
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Sunday, May 19, 2019

When Will You Make an End?

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My daughter just had her braces removed and got to bang a gong at the end of the appointment. The gong is huge and hangs in the busy offic...
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Saturday, November 24, 2018

The Surly Bonds of Earth

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I am a baby boomer. When I was six years-old, my parents booked a flight for themselves, my two brothers and me from our home state in the M...
Friday, September 28, 2018

Soul Flier

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How could you have grown up so fast, when the day you were born, you, grown up, seemed a million years away?  Syd and me when she was about ...
Sunday, August 26, 2018

A Duckling at Sea

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Getting a feeling that your two-year-old has more sense than you do isn't pleasant.  I had that feeling at a party for my daughter'...
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Sunday, August 19, 2018

Be it Ever So Humble and Odd

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One day, when my gal-pal, Lyle and I were still raising babies and up to our ears in diapers and baby food, she said to me, "Sometimes ...
Sunday, July 15, 2018

Tales of the Unexpected

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Sometimes a snappy retort is welcomed and sometimes, not so much. Sometimes what comes from a loved one's mouth in our time of need is n...
Sunday, March 11, 2018

Bridge Years

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The day that would have been my mother's 93rd birthday passed in January. The second anniversary of her death fell in February. She is s...
Tuesday, January 30, 2018

Laura Done Died

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For years I've had a love affair going with old-time radio. Shows like Suspense , The Jack Benny Program , Inner Sanctum Mysteries , You...
Sunday, April 2, 2017

Mercurochrome and the Mothers of Spring

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All hail the Mothers of Spring! They were that fast, fierce, elite team of first responders always on the scene whenever their baby boomer ...
Sunday, March 13, 2016

According to My Specs

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Last week for the first time, I couldn't find my glasses - because I wasn't wearing them.  I might keep a  few extra  pairs  o...
Thursday, February 18, 2016

Heart Murmur

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When my mother was 91, sick, weak, and giving up her life, I wanted to tell the healthcare workers the things I knew that they did not.   ...
Sunday, January 10, 2016

The Long Arm of the Law

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What do Matt Dillon, Bat Masterson, Wyatt Earp and my mother have in common? Each could put the fear of God into any gunslinger, or in the c...