“Would you be willing to do the flowers for my grandson’s wedding?” my sister asked. I didn’t need to hesitate. I had made the bouquets, boutonnieres, and corsages for my daughters’ weddings. “I can do that,” I said. I went to Hobby Lobby with my sister, the bride, and other interested friends to get silk […]
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My oldest sister made me a doll when I was a little girl. It was made out of cloth with moveable arms and legs. The doll had an embroidered face and hair made from a special kind of yarn called straw yarn. That doll exists only in my memory. “You didn’t take care of it,”
My art class was more than a class—it was a social club. We gathered together once a week to paint or draw. We each worked on our current project and our friends made suggestions or critiqued our art if we asked for help. We shared frustrations, successes, food, and family stories. Then Covid-19 reared its
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We were all shook up. It was January of 1980. I had felt the earth go round and round under my feet. My school age children had experienced “duck and cover”. Except it wasn’t a drill. It was for real. My husband had been on the 6th floor of his office building when it swayed
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Kaboom is a cleaning product. I discovered it while I was visiting my son in Florida. I was helping clean his apartment and the product worked. When it was time to take a break, I went for a walk. My son lived in a gated community with multiple apartment buildings. A canal ran through the
When she saw that rattlesnake under the swing set in the front yard, my mother, Edna Pope, did not hesitate. She sent her children into the house. She didn’t give the snake the opportunity to coil and strike. Edna chased that snake around the house and into the backyard. As she passed the woodpile, she
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Writing was challenging for my son. And deciding what to write was made even more difficult when the teacher provided the prompt: “What is your favorite. . . .?” She thought she was providing an easy writing prompt, but my son was stymied. How could he decide which was his very most favorite thing? And
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We were exploring. Marilyn and I had taken our children down to the Arroyo to explore. We weren’t sure what we were looking for, but we were exploring. The stream in the Arroyo had overflowed the banks. Sandra, my daughter, and Andy, Marilyn’s son, wanted to wade in the stream and explore the pathway through
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Andy was my daughter Sandra’s best friend. He lived across the street. The two of them found many things to do. But sometimes they couldn’t decide what they wanted to do next. That is when the two little kids would sit on a large rock in Andy’s front yard. This rock was approximately two feet
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