Where seeds of thought have room to grow
Category: Family
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Well, I made progress…not as much as I would have liked, but I have a teensy idea of an outline – the scene I should start with and how it will all work out. The problem is there is SO MUCH MATERIAL!! Now I'm thinking it would have been best to turn this into a…
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It tugs on a mother's heart when her "babies" grow up. It comes suddenly…one day you're planning a party, buying gifts, baking a cake and the next, they aren't even close enough for a birthday hug. Today I worried that Tommy would be alone, that after work he'd just have an empty house and a television when he…
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The sky was filled with gray clouds on my walk again this morning, but my thoughts were filled with sunshine – my Sunshine Boy, that is, which is what I call Tommy because he's been lighting up my life since the day he was born…23 years ago today. I remember the first time I held him…
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On the first Monday night of the past twenty or thirty Decembers, everyone in Lago Vista has gathered for the lighting of the Christmas tree and the arrival of Santa Claus. A large pine tree in the median of a main street was dedicated as the official tree by some illustrious city father, and for years afterward the street was…
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If there's one thing I've learn in twenty-six years of marriage, it's that if, on the first night in months that you decide to actually cook something other than grilled chicken and salad (in this case, chicken and vegetable soup AND chicken pot pie for Daniel - I really can cook when I feel like it) and so you're…
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It was good spending time with my family…finally celebrating Mama's birthday…getting to hug on Tommy…meeting his girlfriend's parents, her grandmother, sister, and cousin. I met my nephew's fiance, walked with Tom around my childhood neighborhood (seeing it with my ten-year-old eyes), and drooled over the photos from my sister's recent cruise to San Lucia, San Juan,…
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My kids are all here under one roof again…there's bickering, teasing, laughing, arguing…I've had coffee with my parents, helped my mom get the turkey into the oven, and soon my siblings and their families will crowd into the small house with us. We'll eat, laugh some more, argue some more, go for walks, watch football.…
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Email can seem impersonal at times, but it's actually good when it's delivering sad news, like the death of a friend. You have time to look at the words, step back away from them, roll them around in your head and let them ease down into your heart. You don't have to come up with…
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Tom was busy on his days off last week…cutting, splitting, and stacking our oak woodpile. I helped a little – a VERY little – with the stacking. I had lots to do inside, but the sky and sunshine called me – it was just too pretty to stay indoors. The first fire of the…
Long Hollow 