Tag: memories
group name: rememberthepast
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December 22, 2008 04:05 PM EST --
I am so fortunate that my mother chose to write her memoirs and pass them on to her family. This is the anniversary of the day they were married , December 22, 1923. In her own words this is an account . . .
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December 20, 2008 12:34 PM EST --
Nothing is nicer that sitting down to a cup of hot tea. It has to be made properly of course. The tea kettle is put on to boil and the teapot filled with hot water. I like to fill my cup with hot water . . .
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December 21, 2008 10:44 AM EST --
When I was a child my mother taught in the one room country schools. The Christmas party was a big thing in those days as it was a social gathering place for the families in the school district. I think . . .
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July 23, 2007 01:51 PM EDT --
My first concert…ah, I remember it like it was yesterday. My friends and I were huge fans of Green Day back in high school, but really, what teenager wasn't in 1997? On my best friend's . . .
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December 15, 2008 11:41 AM EST --
As I look around my home, now decorated for the Christmas holiday I realize that many of my decorations have a story that goes with them. For instance I have a hall table that is decorated . . .
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November 19, 2008 05:08 PM EST --
Remember when we used to get deodorants in cream form in those little glass jars? In the 40s and 50s there were not a lot of choices of deodorant products. I can remember one called Veto
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January 29, 2007 08:23 PM EST --
Memories
what have you done to me?
I feel like all my memories
are wasting away
fading
in the distant
so far away
I can't reach them
my memories
are slowly erasing
replacing . . .
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April 04, 2007 05:17 PM EDT --
Back in 2002 I went out to Denver to visit my grandmother for her 104th birthday. Yes, I typed that right – she was over one hundred years old and still pretty spry and spunky. After my plane landed . . .
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August 01, 2008 04:25 AM EDT --
My Birthday Poem to my mother who was born on July 27
(I tried to publish this then . . .
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September 15, 2007 01:07 AM EDT --
Going to visit my Dad was always an adventure. Over the years he lived in many different cities all over San Diego County. Every other weekend he'd come to get my brother & I. The adventure would . . .
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January 02, 2007 10:46 AM EST --
Why is it that whenever we remember the past, everything is different? The troubles seem silly or frivolous. They seem smaller somehow. The joys greater. We wish we could relive the joys again and again. . . .
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April 11, 2007 09:31 PM EDT --
We called my grandmother "Toots" (pronounced like the first part of "Tootsie Roll") ever since my oldest brother was learning how to talk. The story is that every time my grandmother . . .
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November 17, 2007 10:50 AM EST --
The holidays are right around the corner and it's the one time of the year that I don't mind being in the kitchen, making some of the items that my grandmother and mother made and carrying on . . .
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January 06, 2007 10:49 PM EST --
I'll never forget the night of the dorm fire at Kent State University. I wish I could remember the name of my dorm. I think it was White Hall but I could be wrong. I lived on the second floor. I transferred . . .
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January 12, 2007 11:35 PM EST --
Memories of us
memories of laughing
memories of longing
memories of playing
memories of cuddling
memories of kissing
memories of sharing
memories of loving
memories of living
memories of him
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December 03, 2007 12:00 AM EST --
Going to visit my Dad was always an adventure. Over the years he lived in many different cities all over San Diego County . Every other weekend he'd come to get my brother & I. The adventure . . .
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October 03, 2007 01:14 PM EDT --
Audrey died yesterday.
In an email my daughter said Audrey was fine in the morning, ate WELL and went out to do her usual daytime thing.
They live way out in the boonies and the cat wandered . . .
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