Tag: Mom
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Happy Birthday, and Sweetest Day, Mom
Today would have been my mom’s 89th birthday, this year falling the day after Sweetest Day. Funny that I’ve never noticed that connection before, as I always think of her on that “holiday.” Flashback to about 40 years ago. I was dating a predecessor to my husband, and we stopped at my parents’ house…
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“Right is Right, and Wrong is Nobody’s Right”
How fitting that the fourth anniversary of the day my mom died, March 8, 2015, was International Women’s Day, which is set aside to celebrate the achievements of women around the world. And while the world is recognizing the legacies of gals like Sandra Day O’Connor, I’m taking time to reflect on the legacy of…
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A Halloween Postmortem
Halloween was two days ago, which means two things: 1. My sugar hangover is almost gone, and 2. In about 10 minutes it will be Christmas. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves, because, even though the song is probably already playing on the radio, in my opinion The Most Wonderful Time of the Year…
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We B Late
We B Late? Huh? I struggled for a long time trying to come up with a name for my blog. Coming rather late to the party as I am (more about that later), it seemed all the clever play-on-words names were long since taken. One great suggestion came from my daughter Sammi’s beloved, Sean. He…