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On the Eight Day of a Feminine Christmas
My grandmother had the loveliest china and she was quite proud of it. Probably because she bought it herself, piece by piece, at RH Stearns in Boston. And she used pin money which…
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Snow Globe
I learned to knit at my grandmother’s knee. She handed me thick white wooden needles with red tops and began teaching me the knit stitch. Knit’s cousin, the purl stitch, would come much…
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Her Style
A slew of new images of my grandmother have come into my possession recently. I haven’t seen these photographs, in dare I say it??? Forty years! Some truths, which I suspected about her…
