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Category: parents

  • Untangling a Humdingerdoozer of a Holiday

    Untangling a Humdingerdoozer of a Holiday

    (Yeah that’s me. I love my photoshop.) This is my father, seen below- in his prime. (he’s 83 now) My aunt used to think he looked like Robert Mitchum, and in some pictures he really does.  My father was a great mechanic. (Still is. He owns a race car now and takes great pleasure sitting…

  • Musings of a Vivid Dreamer

    Musings of a Vivid Dreamer

    I was trying to arrange an enormous pile of gladiolus, lilies and various wild flowers (Black-eyed Susans and daisies) into a makeshift vase -made from a repurposed pig trough- onto which I had mosaiced broken shards from actual Wedgewood dinner plates…when suddenly my silky black puppy wiggled and squeezed her way through the mail slot…

  • Childhood Reminiscing, What IS “Conventional” Anyway?

    Childhood Reminiscing, What IS “Conventional” Anyway?

    me, what a looker! my mother and I, She kept the bathing suit. I still have it, (the red and white striped bikini) —the elastic is shot but I still have it. Matter of fact, I think, 49 yrs. later, my father still has that brown shirt blowing on the line! I’m not kidding. My…