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Jul.06.2012
Summer brings back memories of family gatherings at Boon Lake with parents and grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins, and stories of those who weren’t with us. After a day of playing and swimming we would all gather on the patio or in the cottage for a meal. My great-aunts would tell these...
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May.30.2011
As someone born after the war, I have no direct memories of the war or the war period but I have certainly been indirectly affected by WWII. All of my World War II impressions come from movies, TV, my parents and those relatives who lived through the war. Both of my parents lived lived through...
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Feb.25.2011
Rory Robertson, a Scottish ancestor of mine and a highwayman, fascinates me and many members of my extended family. I think the fascination with Rory, and I have several cousins name Rory in memory of this distant, romanticized ancestor, has to do the fact that my great-great uncle Milton...
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Feb.03.2011
Losing my fertility, or finding that I didn't really have much fertility to begin with, has been my toughest loss and my toughest challenge. Always wanting one and not being able to have a child of my own has been devastating to my psyche and to my sense of womanhood. There isn't too much worse...
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Dec.31.2010
I love to make New Year's resolutions. It feels like starting over again, and again. The one thing I have learned about resolutions is that they require work and do not happen miraculously. Life would be so much easier but possibly much less appreciated if my resolutions happened without effort...
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About Anne
A mystery writer who has publishes her first novel, DEADLINES ARE MURDER, on Kindle at http://www.amazon.com/kindle/dp/B006M7J65A and Smashwords at http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/128363 and is working on her second in the series, Weddings Are Murder....