Tag: family
group name: cr8nonfiction
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June 16, 2006 04:47 AM EDT --
I believe every child deserves a special, never-have-to-share toy. House rule said this toy stayed out of sight when friends come around. Jessica . . . more
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August 14, 2006 05:05 PM EDT --
I shared my childhood experience, knowing she would ignore me the same as I had shunned those who tried to warn me. Glasses and braces . . . more
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June 17, 2006 03:16 PM EDT --
I breezed past the card aisles and stores this year without feeling the pull. My father, grandfathers, and the uncles and friends . . . more
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June 14, 2008 09:23 PM EDT --
One of the best things about having a granddaughter who is still young enough to feel big when she stands on a chair to wash dishes is that while she feels big, she also talks big. Hannah Montana . . . more
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May 02, 2006 08:36 AM EDT --
Our 30-year-old miracle daughter arrived home last night carrying a bouquet of roses for her mother.
I call her our miracle daughter because lived following an accident in the Colorado . . . more
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October 18, 2006 06:49 PM EDT --
Something within my gut recoils as I hear the flippant response . . . again. My words, thoughts, ideas are dismissed as a husband no longer consultsthe once esteemed mental checklist of "verbal offenses." . . . more
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September 28, 2006 10:08 AM EDT --
What follows is a letter to my younger son Greg. He, his sister Mary and his older brother George all live several hundred miles away from me, as well as from each other. . . . more
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October 12, 2006 06:28 PM EDT --
We met at the house to disassemble their lives. In one evening, we took apart what they had created, collected, and been in their years together. We held the pieces of their lives - our history - in . . . more
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February 03, 2007 09:06 AM EST --
My youngest son, 9, turns 10 in a few days. He woke me an hour ago.
"I can't sleep."
He tossed his art supplies on the bed and crawled in after them. Graphite pencils, rubber eraser, . . . more
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August 11, 2006 08:54 PM EDT --
I went for a walk with my mother yesterday. I walked out the back door with the confused imposter who had been living in her body the . . . more
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October 13, 2006 10:42 PM EDT --
She caught the misguided traitor--once known as her left hand--in time to save face, but too late to protect her emotions. Two decades of near-perfect denial washed away, dropping her in a life-changing . . . more
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June 28, 2006 01:04 AM EDT --
On our first vacation as a married couple Marsha and I headed out to see Yellowstone. We also made a side trip to stop by my grand-aunt's place in Wyoming were I'd spent two summers . . . more
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August 24, 2006 08:43 AM EDT --
It was around midnight last night when I asked RG to take Cassidy for her final walk of the day. The downstairs door had barely slammed shut when I knew a disaster had occurred. Our entire apartment, plus . . . more
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May 07, 2008 09:17 PM EDT --
YOU CAN TEACH AN OLD DOG NEW TRICKS . . . more
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November 06, 2006 01:22 AM EST --
Mommy, I Have A Secret
I had a lesson today in how society has shaped the minds of todays' parents. My eleven year old daughter has recently started taking guitar lessons. She has been begging for . . . more
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December 15, 2006 02:29 PM EST --
Our quarrel began the night before I was born and ended the morning she died unless, as I suspect, her spirit lingers to resent the funeral. A rational person would assume that if she knows about . . . more
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May 28, 2006 10:23 PM EDT --
Some of my most cherished childhood memories center around visits to my grandmother Florence's house in Glendale, California. A modest adobe-style dwelling built in the 1920's, . . . more
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April 28, 2006 02:37 AM EDT --
My big mistake was in expecting a twenty-mile drive to erase the thirty years I had been away. I set myself up for the unwarranted sense of betrayal that came when . . . more
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October 11, 2006 11:57 PM EDT --
Every October 12, as the Blue Angels fly over the city, I remember the day you came into the world. People would have paid money for our spectacular view that day. We were at University of California San . . . more
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December 06, 2006 12:33 AM EST --
(This is a repeat posting of an article I deleted.)
I was born in 1922 and my family had a farm in Bethel, Connecticut by the time of the ‘Crash of ‘29’. Some of my father’s . . . more
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