Four years ago this month, my husband and I took his mother to Southern California. She had just turned ninety, and she wanted to see the places where she had grown up. In addition to seeing her old homes and schools in the Los Angeles area, we also toured the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and […]
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With all the new houses in our development, we don’t see as many deer as a couple of years ago. But this lady was visiting a few nights ago . . . until something scared her off. I’m hoping we’ll see fawns in the next few weeks, like we have in years past. Theresa HuppTheresa
I look forward to strawberry season every year. I found a new recipe the other day. Chop strawberries.Add some chopped basil.Pour a couple of tablespoons sweetened and thickened balsamic vinegar over and enjoy. If you don’t have sweetened balsamic vinegar, put a couple of tablespoons brown sugar in a pan with the vinegar and heat
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I can’t remember not knowing how to read. But I have proof positive that I had to learn to write. In the back of my mother’s old Betty Crocker’s Good and Easy Cook Book (1954 edition), the index is covered in pencil scribbles. My pencil scribbles, circa 1958. Sometime during my toddler-hood, I decided I should
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Will your family be decorating graves this Memorial Day weekend? It was never a late-May activity in my family when I was growing up, but that’s because we lived in a town where we had no roots. My husband’s family has lived in the same county for five generations. They have many graves to decorate.
I knew there was a super flower blood moon (see NOTE below) predicted for last Sunday night, but I didn’t have any serious plans to watch it. I am usually fast asleep before night-time events occur. But I happened to wake up about 10:00pm. (Yes, I know, most people weren’t yet in bed.) So I
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I don’t know when Amaryllis are supposed to bloom, but mine let loose sometime around Easter. I think they look like trumpets. Maybe they’re announcing, “He is risen!” In any case, they are beautiful while they last. For a few days each year they fill the entry hall with all their glory. I’ll have to
May is National Photo Month. Photographs are easier than ever to take and to share—with cell phones and social media we can record our lives by the day or by the minute. But will we remember what every snapshot depicts? The digital image might record the date and time of the picture. But unless we
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This picture was taken shortly after my mother’s first Mother’s Day in 1956. That’s me on her lap—her oldest child. She loved reading, and she started teaching me early. Despite my mother’s early lessons, I spent the first thirty years of my life trying not to be like her. It wasn’t until around my 30th birthday that
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