“Mining for Memories”

Essays

In this age of digital photos, we take a bunch, but we don’t always preserve them. We should. Photos, like wine and books and people, often become more important to us with age. “Mining” this photo carried me deep into my childhood, where I wandered around for a while, and when I came back into the light, everything looks a little more dear.

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This I Believe

Essays

I have a friend, Paula, who lost her mother years ago; and because her mother suffered Alzheimer’s disease, Paula began to lose her even before that. The thought of losing my own mother filled me with dread. Hoping to get some advice from my friend, I told her, “I just can’t imagine living in a world where my mother isn’t.” Paula said, “I think of her every day.”
My mother’s death came suddenly and she was gone quickly. So now I live in that world where she isn’t. The surprise is, it’s not at all as I expected.

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Remember Snow?

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It’s supposed to snow tomorrow in Western North Carolina. I hope it does. When we were kids here it snowed a lot, but with global warming, our weather has become more like Western Oregon, lots of rain. The rain is good, keeps the grass green, but snow is just special. What makes it so? Here [...]

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Thanksgiving Revisited

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When Thanksgiving rolled around in 2001, we were still a little shell-shocked from the events of 9/11. Nick and I were still in California and we still weren’t leaving the house without turning on CNN to make sure the world was calm. As we prepared to have dinner at our house so that Nick could depend on left-overs in the fridge, I wrote a Thanksgiving Grace that expressed my feelings.

We’ve just enjoyed Thanksgiving, 2009, and we’re still thankful.

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Deep breath. Here we go…

Essays

In the summer of 2007 I noticed an obituary for the mother of a classmate of mine. Her mother was a good friend of my mother and a few weeks later I attended the memorial that the children held to honor her life. The afternoon was filled with many impressions.

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One Step at a Time

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That’s me.The young people in my life are still waiting for me to accept their Facebook invitations. I haven’t yet read a twit tweet. But today I am getting serious with this blog so that there is one more prompt in my life that requires me to write. My inability to put pen to paper is a long, boring story that I’ll share on another day. Let’s just say I’m getting over it…kind of like menopause…and good riddance.

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