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Home Coming
Home coming: My mother's hugs full of happy tears wetting my neck. My nieces and little nephews running to greet me screaming, "Aunt Coco!", the smell of my…
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Chocolate Kisses from the Past
(Chocolate kisses from the past. This is a repost from my blog in 2006. Though the children are older, and do not lick the spoons or their fingers as…
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Motorcycle Scrapbook: My Father’s Barn
Photography and text by Corey Amaro My dad's shop use to be the milking barn but when I was fourteen he stopped dairy farming converting his barn into a motorcycler's…
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Saturday Art Saves: Bellerby & Co. Globemakers
Photo and text via Bellerby & Co. Globemakers. Each Saturday I focus on a different artist that I admire. From potters to painters, chefs to collectors, seamstress to…
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Halloween Past Present Perfect
Photography and Text: Corey Amaro Halloween repost 2010…. It remains the same. I love it! Halloween fare, it starts with a pumpkin and ends with a ton of candy. The…
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Going Home
Going home. Halloween. My nieces have been asking me what I am going to be. When I said I didn't know, my niece Molly suggested that I dress up…
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Two Homes
The rush is on. What to pack. What to bring. Where is the adaptor plug? Last minute phone calls. Last packages to send from my online shop. Saying good…
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Darn(ed) Good Loved Thing
Loved and worn. Tried and true. For better or worse. Found and cherished. Holding on. French antique quilt or Darn good loved thing.
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The Throne at the Beginning and at the End of the Race
About a week ago my daughter Chelsea asked me to run a 10km in Paris this March. Considering I cannot even run around the block, nor can I run…
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French School Days an Old Notebook Found
An old 1900s kind of old, grade school notebook found at the brocante. Grading then was like grading now. Now smiley-face, or a side note of: "A…
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