Category: Willows, Memories from Back Home
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Doesn’t Get Easier After 38 Years
2011 (family home) Repost from 2017 … I went to California to visit my family: My mom, my four brothers and sister-in-laws, my twelve nieces and nephews, plus my aunts and multitude of cousins and friends. I have “gone back…
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Chocolate Marshmellow Cookies
My mother bakes generously, and always with purpose. There’s never any tiptoeing around the kitchen with her she knows what she is doing even with her eyes closed. She bakes often—nearly every day—and it’s never just for herself. Someone’s dropping…
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Where there’s a will, there’s a way
Sweet Potato Wisdom The other day, my mom decided she wanted to make sweet potato fries. As you know, sweet potatoes are no joke when it comes to cutting—hard as a rock! I suggested maybe boiling them a bit first…
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Meanwhile in Normandy
While I’ve been in California, surrounded by sunshine and the familiar comfort of family, Yann, Chelsea and the Pickles are off in Normandy, visiting his mother. And truly — I am happy for them. Really, I am. It’s a beautiful…
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The Pop-Pop Swirl
Zinnias’ unpretentious, joyous wonder can make me smile without even trying, with their pop-pop colors and sturdy stalks. Zinnias remind me of home, which reminds me of childhood, which reminds me of summer—blackberry pies, swimming at my cousins’ house, then…
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One Week Old
Today was a beautiful baby bundle day. My mother and I met baby Cal, my great nephew—Jack (my nephew) and Jordan’s son. He arrived three weeks early, a tiny surprise, and because of that, I got to meet him before…