Category: Memories from Back Home
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My Mom’s Birthday
Today is my mother’s 90th birthday. Her house will be filled with loved ones. Family and friends near and far—we gather. There won’t be silence. The joy will be evident—because she has been a woman who has given in so…
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Here Comes the Bride
Do you remember going to weddings as a child? I do.With a million cousins, I must have gone to about 999,000 weddings — and I’m only slightly exaggerating. But what is true from those early days is the bride.To me,…
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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…