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Category: Remember when…
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Pom-poms, signs, funny hats and pins, cheering, chanting, and crying…these party conventions remind me why I'm not a card-carrying member of either one. In high school I joined over a hundred other girls at Texas Lutheran College for ten days of an intense live-and-breathe lesson in the Texas political process: Girl's State, sponsored…
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Turning onto Washington, driving toward my parents' house, is like turning pages in an old photo album – everything is much greener and the trees are much taller, but that's Chris Santiago's house on the corner…there's Karen LaRue's house – she had a big playhouse in her backyard…the Astons' house, the Andersons', the Farr's first house,…
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One of the first and best gifts my parents ever gave me was my big sister, or "See-uh-stuh" as I called her for the first few years – I don't remember when I switched to Brenda. Sometimes I feel like I've let my daughter down by not providing…
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"You're the one I think of when Brad Paisley sings 'She's Everything,'" the new groom sang to his bride, strumming his guitar, watching tears fill her eyes, oblivous to the rest of us crowding around to listen. "We've come a…
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I entered the room full of smiling, but unfamiliar, faces, trying to set a brave, confident example for my three kids. But inside I felt shy, like I was a kid on the first day of school, afraid no one would like me. I smiled and said, hi, hi, hi, and they…
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God smiled on my baby girl this morning in honor of her seventeenth birthday – He provided overcast skies and a few sprinkles of rain. Most people would want sunshine on their birthdays, but TG is working as a counselor at a day camp this summer; she yearned for a break from the sunshine and…
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I spent my morning sitting on the side of a road, cheering and clapping, as people of all ages paraded before me, either walking, or riding in cars, boats, and golf-carts tricked out in red, white, and blue. They tossed candy and flags, and some squirted bystanders with water guns. Half the town's population marched passed: the high school…
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TG is sleeping. She had her wisdom teeth removed this morning. I have the kitchen timer set so that every twenty minutes, I pull a frozen gelpack from the freezer and wrap it in a towel. I gently lift her head to remove the warm one, then rest the coldest one on the opposite side…
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Ruthie and Frankie in happier days …
Long Hollow 