Tag: Memories
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Happy Father’s Day
Today we are celebrating two things at the blog – my 100th post and Father’s day. While the 100th post is a great milestone to commemorate, today I’m going to focus on my dearest daddy. Dad, This life has been a wild ride hasn’t it? You tried your best to make me ready for it,…
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When the past finds you
This past week a friend of mine posted on Facebook one of those horrible school dance pictures where two young people are posed together and pretend to be thrilled to be together. This picture was no exception. It was my senior year and a junior friend asked me to go to the dance with him.…
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Counting Pennies
For over a decade I’ve carried a heavy shoe box full of tubs of pennies from house to house. These were not my pennies, but my grandfathers that he had collected year after year. In his top dresser drawer he kept an empty margarine tub, Fleishman’s soft, and at the end of every day he…