This year for Christmas, I’ve been fascinated with decorations. I want to look at them, photograph them, and just enjoy them. I was browsing the Williams-Sonoma catalog and found a lovely set of Christmas plates and started drooling. I wanted those plates! It didn’t make sense. We don’t have parties or entertain. We go to…
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Today is brought to me by: The men and women of the labor force, who work hard to make a living and support their families (today is Labor Day, a holiday in the United States). My parents and grandparents, without whom I would not be here. While I didn’t agree with everything, they all influenced me…
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My husband’s grandparents owned a bar for many years. They made a good living at it – enough for my mother-in-law to have nice clothes and a nice lifestyle. “Bud” was actually her stepfather and she adored him. When he served in the Pacific during World War II, she sent him school pictures and wrote…
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My great-grandmother was named Grace. She was the oldest of nine children, born in 1884. She was of Irish-German descent, her mother having defied her Irish family to marry a German Anabaptist. Her mother was disowned because of that action and for the rest of her life, only had contact with a single sister. Grace’s youngest…
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Indeed – indicates emphatic agreement. Benjamin Franklin once said: “He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.” My grandfather was a very proud man. He went from being the poorest of the poor…
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Join the challenge! Post a picture to match the word of the day and put a link in the comments. You’ll be amazed at how differently the word gets interpreted. Map (from Wikipedia) – A map is a visual representation of an area—a symbolic depiction highlighting relationships between elements of that space such as objects,…
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