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I know it isn’t Christmas, or my birthday, it isn’t a holiday or an anniversary, but the subject of gifts has been on my mind all evening. The definition of … Continue reading The Gift

When my grandmother Mushegan died, my grandfather married a lady named Alice. Alice was a widowed doctor’s wife from Boston and had that wonderful Bostonian accent. It was hard for … Continue reading What Mother is to the Nations

In 1979, February 11 was on Sunday as it is this year. Our family had been to church when we got a call that my grandfather had a heart attack … Continue reading A special tribute to a wonderful man!

I opened the refrigerator door to put away things and I realized that my fridge was stacked with all the leftovers of the week and needed to be cleaned out. … Continue reading Yesterday came suddenly

When I was a little girl we jumped rope, played Red Rover Come Over and a game called Red Light Green Light. I thought of it as I was sitting … Continue reading Red light, green light, wanna play?

It is not easy to lay down your life and start all over again, even when the way you live it has been a struggle. There have been many people … Continue reading It takes guts to live!

20-20 Hindsight is the perfect understanding of an event after it has happened. There are many things in my life that I have had this wonderful “after vision” about and … Continue reading Are you looking back?

I feel like a person who is supposed to be on a diet only to be busted with a drip of chocolate fudge on their blouse and a smudge on … Continue reading What’s the hardest thing to say?

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I was looking at a slideshow of the most beautiful scenes I have ever seen when someone came into the room and I offered to…

I was looking at a slideshow of the most beautiful scenes I have ever seen when someone came into the room and I offered to share it with them. To … Continue reading Are you sad?

When I went to my grandfather, “Pop”, with a problem there was one phrase he would always say as he kind of turned his head to one side and grinned, … Continue reading Keep on Keeping on

I was driving home down my street going home and saw a man, talking into the phone propped on his shoulder, getting the mail out of his mailbox. It occurred … Continue reading Who is my neighbor?