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Category Archives: Memoirish

Down on the Farm, Blue Lake: 3 Indelible “Movie Scene” Memories

February 1, 2017

Various permutations of the family were there – every vacation, every year, back on the farm – Dad’s in White …

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Electoral Dysfunction

February 22, 2016

Only ten of us were there in 1952 at MawMaw Bertha’s one-cow, one-plow sugar cane farm – MawMaw, Mom and …

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Reunion Silver, Gold, and a Few Blues

September 23, 2015

Let’s hear it for nostalgia – at least, the better parts of it! The individuals here were classmates, some with …

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Flies in the Ointment, or on the Table – a Really Useful Discovery

September 10, 2015

Lots of people were in the vicinity, from time to time, but none were aware of the strategic research. Sidetracked …

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Family Road Stories – Quirks, Mis-Directions, and Angelic Interventions

August 24, 2015

Addenda: Several airport pickups this month re-collected my memory of another incident – this one in the “pure zany” category, another …

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Family Horse and Pony Foibles

March 31, 2015

A companion piece to Family Camping Follies… The individuals who were there – my own family from the “greatest ever” …

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Family Camping Follies

March 17, 2015

The individuals who had to be there – my own family, my birth family, my Mother-in-Law and Sister-in-Law, and one …

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A Thanksgiving Story

December 8, 2014

Only three people were there, and I was not one of them. This will be a third-party re-counting, subject to …

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Good Coach/Bad Coach #1 – Youth Baseball

November 6, 2014

Sports fanatics and casual fans have all been there – critiquing coaches and players. I now return to one of …

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Death, and Consequences

October 16, 2014

We have all been there – but consequences differ, some curious and unpredictable. Having previously traced threads of my meandering …

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