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Summer’s Final Bow
My town has the most charming ice cream shop. It’s painted in sherbet colors and has a rick-rack of gingerbread trim. I don’t indulge every day but enough to know the owners who…
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Paradise
“I can’t stop thinking about Hawaii”, I told my son-in-law a month ago. “Oh you’ll be thinking about it a lot more when you come back”, he warned… I’ve been missing a special…
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Find One Hundred Ways
I have always loved Quincy Jones’ song (sung by James Ingram), One Hundred Ways. The lyrics stole my heart years ago because, by God, they are true. If it’s violins she loves…well, let…
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My Yellow House
I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after…they’ve gone through and through me, like wine through water and altered the color of my mind.” ~ Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights…
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On Towels…
The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers…~William Wordsworth A friend came to visit last weekend and loved my blue beach towels. They…
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Soda Fountain Stories
He is clearly smitten with her as she sips from his soda glass. I love her tartan dress which I imagine to be blue and I’ll bet the bow wrapped around her ponytail…
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True North
“But afterwards, is there nothing more for me in life – no true home – nothing to be dearer to me than myself?” ~ Charlotte Brontë, Villette Thanks to a good friend, I found out…
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Beauty Parlor Night
In my twenties, when I was young and carefree, I rented a house with four other women. We all worked, dated, and fret about the number of pizza slices we ate in front…
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Spring Charms
I used to think my modest house took on its beauty only by candlelight. But that was before I had a new front door installed with a half-moon transom built into the top.…
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Easter Finery
When I was too young to understand anything spoken in church, I asked my big brother why we had Easter. His wise, all-knowing answer was, “Easter holds us over ’til Christmas”. And it…
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In Memoriam
I’ve introduced you to this handsome chap before. He was the grandfather of a good friend of mine and I was delighted to see this newly-found photograph of him. Known mostly as the…
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Vanity Fair
In Chapter Nine of Little Women, the March sisters prepare Meg for a journey to Boston for the long-awaited Sally Moffat coming-out party. Meg Goes to Vanity Fair is one of my favorite chapters…
