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I'm focusing on 'family stories' at the moment. ("A Change of Pace: Family Stories" (11/23/2024))- Category: Family Stories
But if something else caught and held my interest during the week, that's what I'll share.
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Category Archives: Family Stories
Converting memories, anecdotes I have shared with my family over the decades, into written family stories; at the request of my oldest daughter. Plus more-or-less-current family events.
Christmas: 12 Days, Songs, Lists, and Singing Mice
This is a very ‘Catholic’ household. But everything we do isn’t uniquely ‘Catholic’, or something Catholics must always do. Take those mice, for example. My wife made them from bits of felt and cloth some years back, and they’ve been … Continue reading →
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Comfort For a Recovering English Teacher
My memory, like my father’s, is occasionally creative. I remembered a someone writing that England’s public schools were dedicated to the idea “…that Tennyson would never happen again….” Then, recently, I started re-reading a Wodehouse book. “…It was almost as … Continue reading →
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Freckles is a Girl: Remembering a Dog Next Door
The house next door north from 818 went through several owners, residents at any rate, while my folks and I were living there. I don’t remember anything about the folks or person who owned Freckles, but I remember the mid-sized … Continue reading →
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Matchstick Rockets in the Basement
I’ve said it before. This isn’t the world I grew up in. Today’s focus on safety, for example, feels over-enthusiastic. But then, I’m one of those people who launched rockets in the basement. With the permission and cooperation of my … Continue reading →
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Remembering a House I Grew Up in, and Gratitude
This week I’ll talk about 818, a house I lived in as a child and youth; and why gratitude is a good idea. House Numbers, Names, and Memories I don’t remember 1215, the house my parents lived in when I … Continue reading →
