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The Richness of Apples
“I miss the apples”, a grade-school friend said to me recently. He lives in Florida now and was referring to the apples that practically paved the roads and sidewalks, the fields and hills…
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A Golden Fall
I got a lucky break one early fall morning when a working mother from a nearby town called to see if I was available to watch her two little girls everyday. It was…
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Summer Serendipity
After Sunday School many years ago, my daughter excitedly ran towards me clutching a bouquet of paper roses she made. They were simple beauties created from colorful tissues folded in accordion pleats, rimmed…
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Boss Lady
I thought it appropriate on this Labor Day weekend to tell you about a boss I once had. I only worked for Jo Boyd Fay for a few short years but in the…
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On A Picnic Morning
Some of us remember a time when lowly wooden picnic tables dotted our country roads and highways. Today my town has one table in a small grove of trees off our central road.…
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Summer Style Note – Straw Handbags
Every mother who dropped her child off at our town’s lake for morning swim lessons had a straw or rattan handbag balancing on the passenger seat of the family station wagon. Even…
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Two Mothers
I’m always a little sad when Mother’s Day ends. I have enough self-knowledge to know it’s the passage of time that gently tugs at my heart. Quickly go the years… These two ladies…
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Seventeen Summer
No matter what age I was, all my summers were Seventeen Summers. They were filled with the glories depicted in what I consider Seventeen Magazine’s golden years (1960’s – 1970’s). Neither cell phones…
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Sunshine On Her Shoulders…
…makes model/actress Shelley Hack happy in her vibrant floral jacket. I also love the rays of sun that illuminate her hair and pretty face in this picture, which I recently found in one…
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Better Days Ahead
Many years ago, a friend whose life I thought perfect, let me read a card her husband had given her. Inside was a simple handwritten line: “Better days ahead”. As I was to…
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On the Ninth Day of a Feminine Christmas
This is one of my favorite feminine Christmas images which I clipped from a British Vogue many years ago. I apologize for the quality but perhaps you will understand why I saved the…
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On the Eighth Day of a Feminine Christmas
This lady is bringing Christmas to someone, at least it appears so since a tree is her passenger. I always have Christmas Eve at home with family and some friends. Sometimes there is…
