family

Blogtalk: What We Carry Around

July 15, 2010
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THIS WEEK’S writing prompt on womensmemoirs.com by Promptly Portland is a fun one for  journal writers, so I thought I’d piggyback on it. If you love to write and you’re a woman — sorry guys — and you haven’t yet checked out this informative website, I highly recommend it. In fact, I like it so [...]

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Blogtalk: Family Ties

July 1, 2010
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CALL me a frustrated grandmother. Reading Linda Hoye’s recent post, Grandma Time, caused me to consider (again) how dispersed my family is — my grown children have moved to Fort Bragg CA, Austin TX, and Salt Lake City, UT (my youngest son is still at home and who knows where he’ll end up). Like Linda, [...]

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Family Affairs

April 17, 2010
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HAVING JUST RETURNED from my oldest son’s wedding in Florida, I’ve been thinking a lot about family this week. Images of the bride’s family and of mine keep flashing through my mind—a grand mix of ethnicity, language, and age. Traditional images of family are turned upside-down when our children and grandchildren are the same age, [...]

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