Reading and Roaming
NAMES THAT ARE MEMORABLE My maternal grandfather was a Texan born in 1894. While in the service, he went home to Pennsylvania with a good friend where he met and then married his friend’s sister, my grandmother. My grandfather moved east to Pennsylvania and then together they re-located to Adrian, Michigan where they lived out their lives. And …
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REMEMBERING AND WAITING November is a month for reflection, remembrance and responsibility, the latter being our duty to exercise our precious right to vote. The most consequential election eve of my life was not 2016 (although that result was stunning and disappointing), but 45 years ago in 1973. November 5 It was November cold and …
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SNAPSHOTS OF EASTER When I was a child and young adult, Easter was a major holiday. Not major like Christmas, but certainly notable and celebrated. Those celebrations included Easter baskets stuffed with green plastic grass and an assortment of jelly beans (the spice ones were the best!) and colorful foil-wrapped chocolate eggs. If one was …
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NOVEMBER MOOD If you live in a true temperate climate, like I did growing up, you might say that the months have personalities. Personalities influenced by the weather and the holidays. In November, in upstate New York, it got dark early and then earlier and earlier. And it was cold. Often the first significant snowfall …
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