My mother called. The brace is off the leg she broke and she is returning to her FL home tonight. During the conversation, we started talking about pets. Something I never knew was that the family had a cat when I was born which would sleep under my basinette while I was in it - and in the basinette when I wasn't ( Read more... )

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( why we wear poppies )

A friend was planning a small Halloween party for her grandchildren and she asked me if I would come and entertain them for the length of a short story. In costume of course. I told her that I would be thrilled to be there but that I didn't want to read a story - I wanted to tell them WHY we celebrate Halloween the way we do. Today, I put my ( Read more... )

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My dream this morning was filled with images from my past. In particular the first elementary school which my elder son attended - in Muncie, IN; the church school in MO where my sons went for Sunday School; and the residence hall in which I resided while at VCU (Image of Johnson Hall, VCU, Richmond, VAThe elementary schools had something to do ( Read more... )

The things that scare a little kid.

When I was in first grade, there was a story told to us about a carnivorous rug. That's right, a rug. I think it was a Japanese story but I won't swear to that. iirc, the rug belonged to a widow woman and it ate her up and then it ... quivered ... out of the house and went down the road, eating everyone it ( Read more... )

When I was a child, there were families with children of an age to play with in almost every house around ours. The house on the corner of Renn Road and Morgan Drive had three children, one a boy about my age and one a girl about the age of my oldest sister. I don't remember any of their names - neither personal, nor family, but I can recall the ( Read more... )

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Physics cover of Bohemian Rhapsody - called "Bohemian Gravity" - abso-blooming-lutely a-MAZING!

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When I was in college, I worked in the cafeteria. One of ( Read more... )

My baby sister inherited all of the old Christmas tree ornaments when my mother moved in with her partner, including the mice in hammocks and crocheted snowflakes given to our mother twenty, thirty years ago. Her elder daughter is celebrating her second Christmas in her own home and asked for some of the snowflakes and one of the mice. My baby ( Read more... )