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3 Gardening Tips I Learned From My Mother (and one from Home Depot)
Every place we lived when I was a kid displayed my mother’s love of gardening. When we lived with my grandparents, she built a long and narrow flower garden behind the clothesline. Its florescence could be seen through every window on that side of the house. And when she and my grandmother hung laundry, the […]
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I’m in this book…
We lived half of my childhood with my grandparents in a very large house on a beautiful lot with giant fruit trees where I spent hours outdoors exploring. While my dad went to college and he and my mom saved to buy a house of their own, I walked to school; made lots of […]
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A father is a man who believes in the future: Three Stories
I. The Forecast My father shared the news of my arrival with his parents in a bold, handwritten note inside my dainty, pink birth announcement: “Well, she is finally here,” he wrote, “and she is HUGE. I guess she’s going to be a fatty.” By the time I found this letter among my grandmother’s things, […]
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New is good. Improved is better.
In 1965 the world was full of change. Miniskirts were introduced in London and Gus Grissom orbited the earth in the first crewed Gemini mission. In rhe same year, President Lyndon B Johnson launched a domestic program to eliminate poverty and racial injustice, then ended the marriage deferment for the draft and sent 60,000 more troops […]
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You Are Here: Say thank you
When my granddaughter (who is 12) was four, she came into my office early one morning. I was sitting in the half-dark silence of a rare moment alone. Not enough coffee to be awake, but conscious enough to draw joy from seeing the sun rise above my neighbor’s roof. I never heard her tiny footsteps […]
