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Break a Leg
My first and only time in the limelight was when I was 9 years old in school. I was a sunflower in a play about dogs and flowers. I don't recall the name any more, although I think I still have the playbill somewhere among ...
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Sundays and Pancakes
Sundays were family day in my house. No matter where - in Germany, in the UK, or in the United States, if everyone was around, we had Daddy's Pancakes on Sundays. These are not ordinary pancakes no siree! My father never did ...
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My Father |
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Why This Site is Important
I lost my father this year. He sunk into senility over time suffering from Alzheimer's. This last year was very hard on my mother, and hard on me and my sister watching him succumb in his mind. I want to remember my father ...
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Christmas in Munich
This is the first year I will be spending the holidays without my father. It will be a rather muted celebration this year because my sister will be with her family and it will be just me and my mother. My father was the ...
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Holidays |
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A Letter From My Father
When my father first started getting sick, he would good days and bad days. Eventually the bad days took over completely, and shutting down his body, but when his mind first started to go and he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's ...
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Mom-Memories and the Ribbon Roll
I never had a blankie or a rag doll I dragged everywhere. My favourite favourite favourite "toy" to play with was mom's ribbon roll. She had this fascination with ribbons that while didn't rub off on me sometimes I miss playing ...
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Ilina's Story of Shame
A Story from one of my favorite bloggers: A Story of Shame Did I ever tell you about the time I got sucked into the cool kids' club in high school? Did I ever mention the act that still shames me today, 25 years later?It ...
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People I Admire |
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Ilina's Pay It Forward Story
another favorite story by Ilina Paying it Forward So the movie Pay it Forward actually kinda sucked. Am I wrong here? I mean Helen Hunt rocked it in her Mad About You days, and Haley Joel Osment was still cute then, ...
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The Orphan Train
The Orphan TrainsFrom the 1850s through the 1920s, New York City was teeming with tens of thousands of homeless and orphaned children. To survive, these so-called "street urchins" resorted to begging, stealing, or ...
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from Ilina: Order and Chaos and a Little Girl Named Maddie
Order and Chaos and a Little Girl Named Maddie
First, forgive me for my inarticulate yammer today. I am struggling with words, for they are all so inadequate to express the roaring goingon in my heart. Read on and ...
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Interesting, Little Girl
“Ok now close your eyes, and picture the room.”
I am squeezing my eyes shut, trying to shut out the smell of the Drakkar Noir the chubby guy next to me has apparently showered in. He’s ruining my backwards drift into time.
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My Father |
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Halloween in Europe
I don't know how I feel about Halloween. Theoretically I should like it. A chance to put on a mask, be someone or something else for a while. Kind of like Mardis Gras in France. My father, when he was in town, used to make ...
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Creativity= re-writing your story.
Came across this fabulous writer & coach, Lisa J. Rough, and wanted to share this terrific post with everyone:
We all have stories that we cling to like Velcro.
My son came home from school the other day, and heartily ...
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Dating Someone Famous
Not too long ago, I ended a year long relationship with someone famous. To many music fans his name would be immediately recognizable, to most others the band name would be.
Disclosure: we have amicably parted ways and ...
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The FO Kids
I put my sneaker tentatively onto the slippery side of the creek, or “crick” as my new American friend called it. She had run down so easily but I was more scared. I wasn’t a good swimmer, at least not that summer; not in fact ...
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