If you remember to bring all your ingredients to room temperature, you’ll have time for cake even in the most dire circumstances.
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The Wizard of My Youth
Working with Thomas Edison wasn’t as magical as my first cousin, 3 times removed, hoped. But, I learned a lot about the cost of career success from the reflections of Walter E Holland and his wife, Alice.
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Sunday School Squadron
My dad taught my Sunday School class for a brief time when I was fifteen. […]
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She Will Survive
“She Will Survive”9″x12″Ink and Comic Book Cutout on Board 12/18/18 Dazzler cut from vintage copy […]
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A Gift From Beyond the Grave
The last thing I wanted to do was impose on her heavenly hereafter. She deserved some time to do what she wanted. I promised I’d let her be dead in peace. But eighteen months into her eternal rest, I needed my mother real bad.
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The Three Amigos
For all the times that that machine let us down, failed to make our life much easier… it came through when it really mattered.
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Something To Talk About
I discovered a secret about my parents and wanted desperately to share the story. But first, I had to weigh the rules my mother lived by against her last request to me. It was a transformative process.
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The Reality of Fantasy
My son made aggressive air quotes around the words as he told me about the assignment. His voice trembled with outrage, “There were pictures of dragons and fairies and unicorns and the whole thing was about how those things weren’t really real!”
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Why Do We Live?
He thought for a minute, “Well… I think it’s to… swim… and to laugh… and to love. Yeah, I think that’s why we live. How about you, mom?”