March 19th
I’ve written before about my experiences cooking and my unwitting (at times) attempts to emulate my mom’s cooking style. Mom had a knack for making it work. A child of the Great Depression years, she learned how to substitute this for that, and tweak the end result until it was at least edible, and most […]
June 1st
By Jere W. Clark Introduction: I was truly blessed to have the parents that I did—I still benefit daily from their principles and advice. And I’m lucky that, while they are both gone now, I have tons of letters and other writings from both of them that keep their spirit—and, often, sense of humor alive […]
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May 8th
Introduction: On a recent trip back to Athens, Georgia, we drove around places my husband and I knew from our time at UGA, and for me, my childhood, when my grandparents were living in town. We went by the house they lived in for 50 years or so, a cute Victorian cottage (built around 1908) […]
January 9th
Yesterday a long, somewhat heavy box arrived from Amazon, containing an 88 weighted-key piano keyboard! I come from a multi-generational musical family, and the piano has been a common thread throughout the family and my life. So today’s blog is a series of vignettes of times and places and people this thread has woven in […]
December 25th
It’s Christmas! The grandkids are just waking up and will come bouncing into the living room to see if Santa figured out they aren’t at their homes. They’ll squeal and marvel at the mound of gifts, and any thought of eating a hearty breakfast will go out the window faster than you can say, “Ho, […]
August 7th
I recently retired after many years from Family Voices, a national advocacy organization for families with children with special health care needs. Unlike many of the Family Voices staff, I don’t have kids or grandkids with special health care needs. I learned so much from the families I worked with, and got windows into what […]
July 17th
Weddings are such milestones and memory-makers. This week marks our 42nd wedding anniversary! Sometimes I marvel and wonder that I’m even old enough to be able to say that. Never mind that my 50th High School reunion is coming up in a couple of years, or that I have two kids who are in their […]
June 21st
As I continue to go through boxes of my mom’s “treasures”—so many cards and letters from family and friends—I find some gems that are worth wading through the rest. Last night I came across two letters, one from Mom to Daddy, another from Daddy to Mom, written on Christmas Day, 1946, six months before their […]
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June 16th
by Mommy and Merrilee, June 19, 1998 Today’s blog is a little different—another guest blog of sorts. I’ve been going through boxes of ‘’treasures” from my folks’ house that my mom had saved for years. I’ve enjoyed reading through cards and letters and other memorabilia. Seeing what she chose to save really gives me windows […]
June 13th
Cedar chests are marvelous things—for many women in the past they were storage vehicles for dowries, waiting for that “someday” when the prince would come. And then after marriage they became repositories for special treasures of value perhaps really only understood by the chest’s owner. My mom had a cedar chest, and it was a […]