Tag: memory
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Why Bother?
It’s that time of year again. Time to plan a huge meal, often for more friends and family than you see any other time of the year. Time to start thawing, brining, cooking, baking and smoking days before the Tryptophan coma is induced. How many guests will there be? How many appetizers? Are there any…
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Bookworm
One day when I was four years-old, I said to my Mom, “Will you teach me to read?” Mom sat down in the chair pictured, with me on her lap, and taught me to read about Dick, Jane, Sally, Spot, Puff and all their friends. At that time the chair looked a little different with…
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Grandma’s Doilies – Part II
August 16, 2022 I’ve been sucked down the rabbit hole that is Ancestry.com again. This time I was surprised with a 100 year-old picture that has whispers of my mother’s and my faces. Before today I had never seen what Grandma Sophie looked like as a young lady. I have an old photograph of her…
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Memory Glue
Have you ever noticed smells can act like glue for memories? You may not have thought of a particular person, place or event for years on end, then you smell something that suddenly brings it all back. Petrichor Petrichor is a fancy term for one of my favorite things. That smell when the summer thunder…
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Titles
Dad is turning 87 this week. For the past couple of years he’s been working on going through old things and clearing out files he no longer needs. He knows I enjoy collecting and reading old papers and correspondence so when he finds something he thinks I might appreciate, he sets it aside to show…