Month: January 2020
28
Jan
Older Brothers
by Marlene
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I have them. Four of them. And with the sorting through of a lot of boxes of family photos and memorabilia from my mother’s estate...
24
Jan
Crossing My Eyes and Dotting My Teas
by Marlene
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I love it when children misspeak or mispronounce words and thus provide an opportunity to add a new word to our vocabulary. My daughter was...
24
Jan
Family: No Returns. No Exchanges.
by Marlene
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I can say something about myself that most people cannot say: I have five brothers, and I have five sisters. My mother had 11 babies,...
13
Jan
Old
by Marlene
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It’s odd how the definition of “old” changes over the years. When I was six years old, I remember thinking my 12-year-old brother Don and...