childhood memories | childhood memories
Feb.02.2012
I've just finished "The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie," by Wendy McClure.I was hesitant to read the book, based on some of the snippets I had come across. I did not want my "Little World" to crumble. The more I read, the more I realized that I...
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Jan.30.2012
I remember the stage when I asked for a yo-yo
When I thought microscopes were cool
When making a Christmas list meant circling everything labeled Barbie or NEW in the Toys R Us magazine (both was a bonus)
When I felt awkward about pretty much everything
When astronomy was the coolest thing anyone...
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Jan.24.2012
Today’s topic is hair. Hair is pretty important to most to us. We talk about our hair: bad hair days, flyaway hair, hair color, thinning hair, lack of hair, for many of us our hair is an integral part of who we are. Hair is part of what defines our personality.
We devote an...
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Jan.21.2012
Let me first start off by saying - shoot! I had a wonderful idea for today's post just after I went bed last night and now I don't remember!Ok, another new start- keep paper and pen by my bedside for recording ideas and dreams.
Speaking of dreams, I found a little time today...
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Jan.19.2012
I began to write when I was in high school, in the 1960s, in Ahvaz, an oil town in Southwest Iran. I still can vividly see the room in which I wrote. It was one of a row of bedrooms, on the second floor of our two-story house with a wrap-around balcony. I had furnished my room sparsely -- a wooden...
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Jan.16.2012
This week’s arctic blast has everyone talking about the weather. There’s been a lot of snow falling in parts of the country. It brings back childhood memories of snow days growing up in Maryland.Remember waking up and turning on the radio or t.v. in the hopes that school was canceled? We could not...
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Jan.12.2012
The curtains billow at the windows,gathered around the table,a pitcher of iced tea,a glass of spring onionsgreen stalks standing tall-dinner time at home.I think it was the weather today that sparked this memory. We've been enjoying spring like temperatures in Florida this week. There was something...
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Jan.12.2012
Whether it's fantasy or reality, memories transport us to the past, to moments of pleasure and pain, to times when we were important or diminished, to what lies beneath. The quality of memory is often strained.
Mom sent me an old photograph of my father in his Army uniform when he was young and...
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Dec.24.2011
It's Christmas Eve and the cookies baked, the casseroles prepared, the house scrubbed from top to bottom. Presents wrapped and under the tree, and the stockings await on the mantle.
As I sit gazing at the tree, I reflect on Christmas past- my own childhood memories and memories of creating a...
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Dec.16.2011
Today my extended family welcomed our newest member: Catherine Marie. It's also one of my favorite cousin's birthday today: Colleen. Reading all the comments on the baby, seeing new pictures on Colleen's Facebook page filled me with waves of longing for the days when we all lived closer to each...
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