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Neil and Fluffy
Neil loved Fluffy, no doubt about that! Fluffy joined our family around 1980. We bought him at a local pet shop, but I’m pretty sure he was a puppy mill dog. We didn’t know about puppy mills at the time,…
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Nanny’s 86th Birthday
It was October 31, 2015. We didn’t know at the time, but this was to be Nanny’s last birthday. I made her favourite meal, put her “best” tablecloth on the table, and bought her favourite dessert–a chocolate “baby cake.” We…
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Ashleigh, the Belle of the Ball
Ashleigh is dressed and ready to go to the spring prom. The dress is perfect, the hair is gorgeous, and those rosy cheeks are so pretty. She must have been the Belle of the Ball!
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The Pandemic of 2020-21: COVID 19 Coronavirus
“And the people stayed home. And read books, and listened, and rested, and exercised, and made art, and played games, and learned new ways of being, and were still. And listened more deeply. Some meditated, some prayed, some danced. Some…
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Gloria age two with Nan and Pop
There weren’t too many pictures of me when I was little because not everyone had a camera, and the cost of film and development was not in the budget. That said, here is a photo of me at age two…
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Nanny’s little car
In 1960, Nan and Pop owned a house in Orleans. In those days, Orleans was country, with dirt roads and no buses. Nanny needed a car to get to her job as a dental assistant in Manor Park, so Pop…
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Angie at 16 months old
I only have a few photos of Angie when she was a baby. This is one of the earliest. I did have a photo album, but the box it was packed in got lost when we moved from our apartment…
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If you’re wondering why I’m kind of old-fashioned, read on…
Back in my early childhood, I remember the “ice box” and the ice man who brought our big block of ice every morning on his horse-drawn wagon. He would give us kids a chunk of ice to suck on, and…
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Taking a dip
Swimming pools were pretty much the best part of our summers. We swam morning, noon and night. Angie and Neil had friends over to swim most days, and I bought more Popsicles and made more hamburgers than I could count.…
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They called me “Peanut”
Here I am at age 10 or 11 at St. François School in Orleans, 1960. (I’m the kid right in front). Orleans was all country, then, and we didn’t have a school bus. We had a very long walk on…